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Benedict XVI holds his final general audience, Feb. 27, 2013. / Mazur/www.thepapalvisit.org.uk (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)Denver, Colo., Jan 1, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI prompted his former students and other Catholic scholars to reflect on his importance for the Catholic Church as a theologian, a scholar and a preacher. Some even raised the prospect of the late pontiff s canonization and recognition as a Doctor of the Church."I don t know anyone who has worked closely with him who does not recognize his holiness and his brilliance," Father Joseph Fessio, S.J., the founder and editor of the San Francisco-based Ignatius Press, said Saturday. Fessio was a doctoral student under Benedict XVI when the future pope was known as Joseph Ratzinger, a professor and priest at the University of Regensburg.George Weigel, a biographer of Pope St. John Paul II who holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, praised t

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