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VATICAN CITY (REUTERS) - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died. Below are highlights from his life.
April 16, 1927: Born Joseph Alois Ratzinger in Marktl am Inn, Germany, youngest of three children to Joseph and Maria Ratzinger.
1943-45: Assistant in.
BERLIN (AP) Pope Benedict XVI leaves his homeland with a complicated legacy: pride in a German pontiff but a church deeply divided over the need for reforms in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal in which his own actions of decades ago were faulted.