Pope Benedict XVI, the bookish conservative pillar of the Roman Catholic Church who ended his turbulent tenure in 2013 by becoming the first pontiff to retire in six centuries, died at 9:34 a.m. local time in his residence at the Vatican’s Mater Ecclesiae Monastery. He was 95. Benedict, a soft-spoken former professor from the Bavaria region of Germany, proved a polarizing pope. He favored a more ideologically uniform Catholic Church, rejected any moves toward the ordination of women and said that gay marriage, abortion and euthanasia threatened world peace. Advertisement Germany's Joseph Ratzinger, the new Pope Benedict XVI, appears at...
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