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Former Pope Benedict XVI has died at his Vatican residence, aged 95, almost a decade after he stood down because of ailing health.<\/p>\n

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He led the Catholic Church for less than eight years until, in 2013, he became the first Pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Benedict spent his final years at the Mater Ecclesiae monastery within the walls of the Vatican.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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His successor Pope Francis said he had visited him there frequently.<\/p>\n

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Although the former pontiff had been ill for some time, the Holy See said there had been an aggravation in his condition because of advancing age.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, Pope Francis appealed to his final audience of the year at the Vatican to “pray a special prayer for Pope Emeritus Benedict”, whom he said was very ill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Born Joseph Ratzinger in Germany, Benedict was 78 when in 2005 he became one of the oldest popes ever elected.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For much of his papacy, the Catholic Church faced allegations, legal claims and official reports into decades of child abuse by priests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The BBC<\/a> reported that earlier this year the former Pope acknowledged that errors had been made in the handling of abuse cases while he was archbishop of Munich between 1977 and 1982.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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