Benedict’s eight years of Papacy: A resignation that left Catholic faithful stunned

Started by MrVan, Feb 17, 2013, 09:30 AM

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WHEN Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, a German conservative archbishop of the Catholic Church, was elected on April 19, 2005 as the leader of about 1.2 billion Catholics the world over, there was only one thing uppermost in his mind: how to make the world more peaceful.

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