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Pope exposes confidential details of past conclaves and settles scores with Pope Benedict XVI’s aide
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Pope exposes confidential details of past conclaves and settles scores with Pope Benedict XVI’s aide

Associated Press  

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has exposed the political “maneuvers” used to sway votes during the two most recent elections of popes, while denying he is planning to reform the process for future conclaves, in a book-length interview published Tuesday. “They told me afterward that they didn’t want a ‘foreign’ pope,” — in other words, a non-Italian one — Francis …

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Pope exposes confidential details of past conclaves, settles scores with Pope Benedict XVI’s aide
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Pope exposes confidential details of past conclaves, settles scores with Pope Benedict XVI’s aide

LA Times  

Pope Francis, left, and Pope Benedict XVI greet each other in 2017. The confidential revelations are contained in “The Successor: My Memories of Benedict XVI,” in which the Argentine pope reflects on his relationship with the late German pope and settles some scores with Benedict’s longtime aide. Francis said Benedict’s would be “the last wake in which the body of …

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Pope sends Benedict XVI’s former aide back to Germany in latest sign of falling out
1 year, 6 months ago

Pope sends Benedict XVI’s former aide back to Germany in latest sign of falling out

Associated Press  

ROME — Pope Francis has fired the longtime aide to the late Pope Benedict XVI from his Vatican job and ordered him to return to his native Germany, the final chapter in a very public falling out that culminated with the aide’s tell-all memoir that was highly critical of Francis. While all papal secretaries usually return to their dioceses of …

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Pope Benedict XVI’s aide acknowledges criticism over memoir
1 year, 9 months ago

Pope Benedict XVI’s aide acknowledges criticism over memoir

Associated Press  

ROME — The longtime secretary to Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged Sunday that his tell-all memoir, published in the days after Benedict’s death, had been criticized for casting Pope Francis in an unfavorable light, but insisted that some of the polemics were more about anti-Benedict prejudice than anything else. In some of his first public comments since Benedict’s Dec. 31 death, …

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Pope meets with Benedict’s aide amid revelations in new book
1 year, 11 months ago

Pope meets with Benedict’s aide amid revelations in new book

Associated Press  

ROME — Pope Francis met on Monday with Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, the longtime secretary of Pope Benedict XVI who was a key figure in his recent funeral but who has raised eyebrows with an extraordinary memoir in which he settles old scores, reveals palace intrigues and casts Francis in a deeply unfavorable light. But questions have also been raised about …

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Benedict aide’s tell-all book will expose ‘dark maneuvers’
1 year, 11 months ago

Benedict aide’s tell-all book will expose ‘dark maneuvers’

Associated Press  

VATICAN CITY — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s longtime personal secretary has written a tell-all book that his publisher on Monday promised would tell the truth about the “blatant calumnies,” “dark maneuvers,” mysteries and scandals that sullied the reputation of a pontiff best known for his historic resignation. Archbishop Georg Gaenswein’s “Nothing but the Truth: My Life Beside Pope Benedict XVI” …

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‘Lord, I love you': Aide recounts Benedict’s last words
1 year, 11 months ago

‘Lord, I love you': Aide recounts Benedict’s last words

Associated Press  

VATICAN CITY — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s last words were “Lord, I love you,” his longtime secretary said Sunday, quoting a nurse who helped care for the 95-year-old former pontiff in his final hours. Earlier, the Vatican said that Pope Francis went to pay his respects immediately after Gaenswein called to inform him of Benedict’s death shortly after 9:30 a.m. …

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Benedict’s resignation sparked calls for retirement protocol
1 year, 11 months ago

Benedict’s resignation sparked calls for retirement protocol

Associated Press  

VATICAN CITY — If ever there was a moment that embodied the surreal novelty created by the first papal resignation in 600 years, it came on the morning of March 23, 2013: Newly elected Pope Francis had traveled to the papal summer retreat south of Rome and was greeted on the helipad by the previous pope, Benedict XVI, who had …

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Benedict XVI turns 95 as book focuses on anomaly of 2 popes
2 years, 8 months ago

Benedict XVI turns 95 as book focuses on anomaly of 2 popes

Associated Press  

VATICAN CITY — Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI turned 95 this past weekend, a significant milestone on its own but even more given he has now been a retired pope longer than he was a reigning one. To mark the occasion, a new book sets out to examine the current state of Vatican affairs not so much through the lens of …

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Former pope was at meeting where pedophile priest discussed
2 years, 11 months ago

Former pope was at meeting where pedophile priest discussed

Associated Press  

BERLIN — Retired Pope Benedict XVI has acknowledged that he did attend a 1980 meeting at which the transfer of a pedophile priest to his then-diocese was discussed, saying an editorial error was responsible for his previous assertion that he wasn’t there. Authors of a report on sexual abuse between 1945 and 2019 in the Munich archdiocese, which Benedict — …

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