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Tens of thousands bid farewell to Pope Emeritus in Vatican

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI 's body, his head resting on a pair of crimson pillows, lay in state in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican as tens of thousands queued to pay tribute to the pontiff who shocked the world by retiring a decade ago.

Why the Pope wrote a resignation letter in 2013

Pope Francis has revealed in an interview published Sunday that shortly after being elected pontiff in 2013 he wrote a resignation letter in case medical problems impede him from carrying out his duties.
A picture made available by the Italian online news portal Open shows people gathered around a swastika-covered casket outside the St. Lucia church in Rome, Italy, on Monday.

Use of Nazi flag at a funeral in Italy condemned

Italian Catholic and Jewish leaders on Tuesday condemned as outrageous an episode in which right-wing extremists put a flag with a swastika on a coffin outside a church after a religious funeral and gave Nazi salutes
Cardinal George Pell with Pope Francis.

Pope sacks cardinal in charge of child sex abuse

Pope Francis has dismissed the church's chief of doctrine, Cardinal Gerhard Mueller - one of the most powerful cardinals at the Vatican - and appointed a Spanish archbishop to the role, the Vatican said today.