4 minutes agoFormer Benedict XVI dies at 95
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(3 years ago)Papa Emeritus* Benedict XVI, a bavarese-born theologian whose Roman Catholicism gave the nickname “Rotweiler of God” and who shocked the move by resigning unexpectedly from the invisibility after just eight years, died on Saturday, the Vatican said. He was 95 years old. Benedict was the longest-lived pope, crossing Pope Leo XII in September [...]
Benedict was the longest-lived pope, crossing Pope Leo XII in September 2020.
Benedict, the first pope to voluntarily forgo papal obligations in nearly 600 years, spent the next years of his life living in the Vatican in a renovated monastery, rarely appearing in public with the man who replaced him, Pope Francisescu, writes NBC News, broadcast The Express.
But he continued to counsel his offspring privately with much more liberal minds. His influence was felt in August 2016, when Francescu, who had made efforts to contact the LGBTQ community, took an unexpected tough stance against teaching children from schools that they could choose their gender.
Born Joseph Alius Ratzinger on April 16, 1927, in Marktl, Germany, Benedict, son of police officer Joseph and Mary, grew up in a Nazi - infected Germany. Like his father, Benedict opposed Hitler. But at the age of 14, he was forced to join the Hitler Youth. And two years later, while still at the seminar, the next pope was recruited into the German army and sent to the front.
* Emeritus is used for retired persons but has allowed them to retain their title as an honor.
