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German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his apartment in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Benedict gave his fellow German theologian his old job, as prefect of the Vatican’s doctrine office. He entrusted his life’s theological works to Mueller, who has spent nearly two decades organizing them in a 16-volume, 25,000-page opus along the lines of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. He gave him his old flat on the top floor of a Vatican apartment building, where he had lived as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

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German cardinal guards Benedict's intellectual legacy
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Wed,01/04/23-2:32PM , 341 Reads
VATICAN CITY (AP) — If ever there was an heir to the intellectual legacy of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, it's Cardinal Gerhard Mueller.
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The body of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is lied out in state inside St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Pope Benedict, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. He was 95.(AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Some 200,000 turn out over 3 days to view Benedict's body
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Wed,01/04/23-2:51AM , 725 Reads
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis praised Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s “acute and gentle thought” during a Wednesday general audience in the Vatican, as tens of thousands of admirers of the retired pontiff filed by his body lying in state in Peter’s Basilica on the final day of viewing.
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Pope Benedict XVI greets faithful from his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, the scenic town where he spent his first post-Vatican days and made his last public blessing as pope, Feb. 28, 2013. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's death has hit Castel Gandolfo's "castellani" particularly hard, since many knew him personally, and in some ways had already bid him an emotional farewell when he uttered his final words as pope from the palace balcony overlooking the town square. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

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At Benedict's summer home, a town mourns its beloved visitor
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Wed,01/04/23-1:18AM , 423 Reads
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — The shopkeeper named her daughter after him. The parish priest wears his old vestments. The former mayor dedicated a plaque to him on City Hall, and residents up and down this picturesque hilltop town reminisce about hearing him play the piano behind the palace walls on cool summer evenings.
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Pope Francis, second from left, watches Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI enter St. Peter's Basilica accompanied by Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, right, at the Vatican, on Dec. 8, 2015. Pope Benedict XVI's 2013 resignation sparked calls for rules and regulations for future retired popes to avoid the kind of confusion that ensued. Benedict, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday Dec. 31, 2022. He was 95. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

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Benedict death paves way for protocols to guide future popes
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Sun,01/01/23-8:31AM , 1,378 Reads
VATICAN CITY (AP) — There was no tolling of the bells of St. Peter’s Basilica, no solemn announcement by a Vatican monsignor to the faithful in the square. A fisherman’s ring did not get smashed and the diplomatic corps were not mobilized to send official delegations to Rome.
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