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Pope calls for 'coherent' Christian living in last address

Jeffrey Donovan, Lorenzo Totaro Bloomberg News

Last updated Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - 3:17pm

PRAGUE — Pope Benedict XVI called on Christians to lead a life that’s “coherent” with their beliefs in his last public address before becoming the first Roman Catholic pontiff in six centuries to relinquish power.

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FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 25, 2008, file photo, Pope Benedict XVI holds the pastoral staff as he celebrates Christmas midnight Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Declaring that he lacks the strength to do his job, Benedict announced Monday Feb. 11, 2013, he will resign Feb. 28 _ becoming the first pontiff to step down in 600 years. His decision sets the stage for a mid-March conclave to elect a new leader for a Roman Catholic Church in deep turmoil. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Vatican reports pope has pacemaker

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 11:39am

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican is acknowledging for the first time that Pope Benedict XVI has had a pacemaker for years and that its battery was replaced a few months ago in secret.

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In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI (center) leaves after attending a Monday meeting of Vatican cardinals where he read a document in Latin in which he announced his resignation. (The Associated Press)

Top of Utahns: Pope's resignation wise, responsible

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 12:19am

OGDEN — Monday began just as any day would when the sun didn’t come up.

That was how Ogden resident Michael Joseph reported it felt to hear that Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI had resigned.

But as the day wore on, Joseph said, his faith was restored. “Even though this faith is over 2,000 years old, we can still learn things, and this has helped my faith to grow. I’m not discouraged any more.”

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In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, right, and Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Dean of the College of Cardinals, hug each other after the pontiff announced during the meeting of Vatican cardinals that he would resign on Feb. 28, at the Vatican, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. Benedict XVI announced Monday that he would resign Feb. 28 - the first pontiff to do so in nearly 600 years. The decision sets the stage for a conclave to elect a new pope before the end of March. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)

Text of pope's resignation letter

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 11, 2013 - 10:40am

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday he would resign Feb. 28 because he is simply too old to carry on. Here is the text of his announcement, delivered to cardinals gathered for a ceremony to name three new saints.

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FILE - In this Sunday, Sunday, April 24, 2005 file photo, Pope Benedict XVI waves as he rides on the Popemobile through St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, following his installment Mass. Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, he would resign Feb. 28 because he is simply too old to carry on. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Pope to resign due to poor health

Nicole Winfield, Victor L. Simpson The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 11, 2013 - 10:58am

VATICAN CITY -- Declaring that he lacks the strength to do his job, Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday he will resign Feb. 28 - becoming the first pontiff to step down in 600 years. His decision sets the stage for a mid-March conclave to elect a new leader for a Roman Catholic Church in deep turmoil.

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Pope stresses family values, denounces gay marriage

Nicole Winfield The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 21, 2012 - 4:16pm

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The pope pressed his opposition to gay marriage Friday, denouncing what he described as people manipulating their God-given identities to suit their sexual choices - and destroying the very "essence of the human creature" in the process.

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Pope Benedict XVI pushes a button on a tablet at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. In perhaps the most drawn out Twitter launch ever, Pope Benedict XVI pushed the button on a tablet brought to him at the end of his general audience Wednesday. It read: "Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart."Later in the day he was to respond to a few messages sent to him from around the world.As the countdown to his first tweet from his Twitter handle (at)Pontifex neared, the pope had garnered nearly 1 million followers in the eight languages of his account. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope hits 1M tweets

Nicole Winfield The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 6:23pm

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI hit the 1 million Twitter follower mark on Wednesday as he sent his first tweet from his new account, blessing his online fans and urging them to listen to Christ.

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Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives for his weekly audience in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Pope breaks silence over Vatileaks scandal

Nicole Winfield The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 9:19am

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI broke his silence Wednesday over the scandal of leaked documents that has convulsed the Vatican, saying he was saddened by the betrayal but grateful to those aides who work faithfully and in silence to help him do his job.

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Pope's butler arrested in Vatican with secret documents

Nicole Winfield The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, May 26, 2012 - 7:29am

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican confirmed Saturday that the pope's butler had been arrested in its embarrassing leaks scandal, adding a Hollywood twist to a sordid tale of power struggles, intrigue and corruption in the highest levels of Catholic Church governance.

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Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful as he arrives to lead a Mass at Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday March 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Pope wraps up Cuba visit with Mass, Fidel meeting

Nicole Winfield, Paul Haven The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 9:41am

HAVANA, Cuba -- Pope Benedict XVI wraps up his visit to Cuba on Wednesday with an open-air Mass in the shrine of the Cuban revolution, hoping to revive the Catholic faith in this communist-run country. His other appointment: a meeting with Fidel Castro.

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In this picture made available Tuesday, March 27, 2012, by the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a mass at Revolution Square in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Monday, March 26, 2012 (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano)

Pope to meet Castro in Cuba

Andre Rodriguez, Peter Orsi The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 9:25am

SANTIAGO, Cuba -- Pope Benedict XVI spent the night in a brand-new home built just for him near the sanctuary of Cuba's Virgin of Charity icon, where he will kneel in quiet prayer early Tuesday before heading to the capital for political meetings.

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(PIER PAOLO CITO/The Associated Press) In this Nov. 4, 2011 file photo, Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful as he leaves St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican aboard a mobile platform at the end of a Vespers ceremony. Pope Benedict XVI insisted on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011, that all of society’s institutions and not just the Catholic church must be held to “exacting” standards in their response to sex abuse of children, and defended the church’s efforts to confront the problem.

Pope: sex abuse ‘scourge’ for all society

Frances D’emilio The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 26, 2011 - 6:33pm

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI insisted on Saturday that all of society’s institutions and not just the Catholic church must be held to “exacting” standards in their response to sex abuse of children, and defended the church’s efforts to confront the problem.

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Pope: sex abuse 'scourge' for all society

Frances D'Emilio The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 26, 2011 - 11:17am

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI insisted on Saturday that all of society's institutions and not just the Catholic church must be held to "exacting" standards in their response to sex abuse of children, and defended the church's efforts to confront the problem.

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Pope begins state visit to Germany

Melissa Eddy The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 6:55am

BERLIN -- Pope Benedict XVI warned Germans of the danger of ignoring religion as he began the first state visit to his homeland Thursday, seeking to stem the tide of Catholics leaving the church while acknowledging the damage caused by the clerical sex abuse scandal.

He is expected to be greeted by large protests and a boycott by some lawmakers when he addresses parliament later in the day but also by larger crowds of Catholic faithful.

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(MARKUS SCHREIBER/The Associated Press) Germany’s tabloid Bild Zeitung has covered their publishers building with a giant reprint of their front page from April 20, 2005 when Pope Benedict XVI was elected and the headline ‘We Are Pope’ in Berlin, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. The 45 x 64 meters poster will welcome the pope to his Germany visit from Thursday Sept. 22 until Sunday 25, 2011.

Pope visiting homeland with mixed views on church

Melissa Eddy The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 9:48am

BERLIN — When Benedict XVI arrives in Berlin this week, he will be greeted in his homeland by a Lutheran chancellor, a gay mayor and a divorced, remarried Roman Catholic president.

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