Benedict’s resistance to what he saw as campaigns to secularize the church, promote women as priests, and “normalize” homosexuality led to his characterization as “God’s Rottweiler.”
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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the Bavarian-born theologian whose conservative Roman Catholicism earned him the nickname “God’s Rottweiler” and who shocked his flock by suddenly resigning the papacy after just eight years, died Saturday, the Vatican said.
He was 95.
Benedict was the longest-living pope, having surpassed Pope Leo XIII in September 2020.
“With sorrow, I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican,” the Vatican said in a statement early Saturday. No cause of death was provided. “Further information will be provided as soon as possible,” the statement said.
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The Vatican said Benedict’s remains would be on public display in St. Peter’s Basilica starting Monday, with his funeral to be held on Thursday, Jan. 5 in St. Peter’s Square.
Pope Francis disclosed during his weekly general audience earlier this week that his predecessor was “very sick,” and asked for people to pray for him.
