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All members have militaries, except for Iceland, which does not have a typical army (but it does have a coast guard and a small unit of civilian specialists for NATO operations). Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states.
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.
The Rise of Benedict XVI: The inside story of how the pope was elected and where it will take the Catholic Church. Doubleday Religion. ISBN 0-385-51320-8. Greeley, Andrew M. (2005). The Making of the Pope: 2005. Brown, Little. ISBN 0-316-86149-9. Weigel, George (2005). God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church ...
Benedict XVI, the former pope who upended centuries of tradition by resigning as pontiff, has died at 95. ... Ratzinger saw their disrespect and unruliness as part and parcel of a general societal ...
On 11 February 2013, Benedict XVI announced his resignation from the papacy effective 28 February 2013 at 20:00 local time (19:00 UTC). [2] [3] [4] He was the first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415, [5] and the first to do so of his own volition since Celestine V in 1294. [6] [7]
Pope Benedict XVI shakes hands during his visit to Park East Synagogue in New York on April 19, 2008. ... Benedict was 78 and already frail in 2005 when he became pope — the oldest pope elected ...
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday. He was 95. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI by the conclave on 19 April 2005. The papal conclave of 2005 was convened to elect a pope , the leader of the Catholic Church , to succeed Pope John Paul II following his death on 2 April 2005.