having trouble speaking, which has been too for a while he was in there were cautiously optimistic. so when we got this message on her phone at nine, you know that the pope had passed away this morning. 9 34 . we were quite surprised, but again, this is sort of uncharted territories in many ways, because we ve never really had a pope emeritus, funeral and so forth. and in fact, i m in a car right now. heading to a press conference, the matteo bruni, who is the papal spokesman, and we re going to get some of the details about exactly how things going to go in the next couple of days. we do know that the body will be, uh at saint peter s for the laying in state , and that will be from january 2nd so that the faithful can go and greet them. and this is quite, um, in an important event. remember with pope john paul the second during, um, that particular event of lines just accuse going all the way to the other side of the tiber
cited his advanced age and his inability to give the world of 1.2 billion catholics elaborate or ships needed. benedict left a church growing in africa and asia, but tarnished by scandal in europe in the u.s.. the man many hoped would reform the korea, the bureaucracy the runs to, church wasn t stuck betrayed by. at his own butler, leaking confidential documents revealing corruption and inviting. and, speculation about the investigation into the scandal ordered by benedict, dominated the final weeks of his paper seem. the continuing revelations of sexually abusing children once dismissed as an american issue, savagely european church. in benedict germany, belgium, france, and ireland, stories of molestations and cover-ups shook even the most faithful. for benedict the 16th, the role of pope was not a natural fit. an academic, he wanted to retire to his native bavaria to write books. instead, at age 78, he was elected to succeed john paul the second. one of the most influential and
for decades, joseph ratzinger was a key advisor to john paul the second turning a reputation as a staunch conservative when john paul ii died after 25 years as pope, it took the cardinals two days to get the job to a 78-year-old german, a scholarly man who didn t appear to want it. as pope benedict xvi he battled relativism, the idea that what is true for one person might not be true for someone else. pope benedict s 2,008 visit to the united states will be remembered not only for his birthday celebration in the white house, a stop at ground 0 and mass at yankee stadium but by the way he addressed the catholic church, sex abuse crisis that would haunt his papacy. excuse pedophiles from sacred ministry, this who is really guilty, cannot be priests.
place inside st. peters basilica. claudio, i want to ask you here. have you been able to chat with anybody? what is the lasting legacy you feel people will be remembering most over these next few days? well, benedict 16 had an interesting he became pope in an interesting time. he has followed the footsteps of a very popular pope as john paul the second, and then he would sandwich return him and pope francis, another very popular pope. benedict was known as a theological. he was very humble. he was very simple, and that is, why, actually the head of the vatican press office said the funeral will also be kind of simple, sober, and so forth. so, it is kind of not really so remembered as other probes. this morning, when we were in st. peters square, we found out that we were asking people what they thought about the fact
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