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The Vatican leaks scandal, also known as Vatileaks and Vati-Leaks, is a scandal beginning in 2012 initially involving leaked Vatican documents, exposing corruption.Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi published letters from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò in which he exposed corruption that caused the Holy See to pay increased prices for contracts.
Pope emeritus Benedict XVI with Pope Francis (left) in the Vatican Gardens, July 2013. After his resignation, Benedict retained his papal name rather than reverting to his birth name. [9] He continued to wear the white cassock but without the pellegrina or the fascia. He ceased wearing red papal shoes.
Secrets of the Vatican is an American television documentary film. It first aired on the PBS Channel on February 25, 2014 as an episode of PBS' Frontline TV series.. The film covers the period after the death of John Paul II until the first year of Pope Francis, and it posits a theory of what made Pope Benedict XVI resign from the papacy in 2013.
Benedict was 78 and already frail in 2005 when he became pope — the oldest pope elected in almost three centuries — and by Feb. 11, 2013, then 85, he had had enough.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the shy German theologian who tried to reawaken Christianity in a secularized Europe but will forever be remembered as the first pontiff in 600 years to resign from the ...
The health of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has worsened due to his age, and doctors are constantly monitoring the frail 95-year-old’s condition, the Vatican said Wednesday. Vatican spokesperson ...
The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI took effect on 28 February 2013 at 20:00 CET, following Benedict's announcement of it on 11 February. [1] [2] [3] It made him the first pope to relinquish the office [note 1] since Gregory XII was forced to resign in 1415 [4] to end the Western Schism, and the first pope to voluntarily resign since Celestine V in 1294.
The body of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI laid out in state inside St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023. Benedict XVI, the German theologian who will be remembered as the ...