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President Joe Biden signs a condolence book at the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Benedict died at 95 on Dec. 31, 2022, in the monastery on the Vatican grounds where he had spent nearly all of his decade in retirement. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden visits Vatican embassy to honor Benedict XVI

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Believers and clergy attend a mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at the Saint Magdalena church in Altoetting, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. 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/Andreas Schaad)

Benedict remembered as humble scholar, not ‘God’s Rottweiler’

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

A person signs a book of condolence for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at the Saint Magdalena church in Altoetting, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. 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/Andreas Schaad)

Biden, lawmakers join in commemorating Pope Benedict XVI’s legacy

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

With the towers of Munich's cathedral in the background, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, bids farewell to the Bavarian believers in downtown Munich, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 28, 1982. The Vatican on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022 strongly defended Pope Benedict XVI’s record in fighting clergy sexual abuse and cautioned against looking for “easy scapegoats and summary judgments,” after an independent report faulted his handling of four cases of abuse when he was archbishop of Munich, Germany. (AP Photo/Dieter Endlicher, File)

Vatican defends Benedict after report faults abuse record

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

FILE - Pope Francis, right, hugs Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI prior to the start of a meeting with elderly faithful in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014. A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany’s Munich diocese on Thursday faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI’s handling of four cases when he was archbishop in the 1970s and 1980s. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Pope vows justice for abuse victims after Ratzinger faulted

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Benedict XVI greets well-wishers in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City on Wednesday. Benedict on Thursday will become the first pope in six centuries to step aside. Some 150,000 people attended his farewell address. (Associated Press)

A reluctant leader, Pope Benedict leaves legacy of ‘new evangelization’

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Monsignor Stephen Rossetti (right), a psychologist who for a decade ran a U.S. treatment center for abusive priests, listens Feb. 8, 2012, to Monsignor Charles Scicluna during a press conference in Rome. Monsignor Scicluna spoke on the sidelines of a Vatican-backed symposium on clerical sex abuse that is designed to help bishops craft guidelines to protect children and keep pedophiles out of the priesthood. (Associated Press)

Vatican sex crimes prosecutor heads to Malta

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope to visit a German homeland with mixed views on church

By Melissa Eddy - Associated Press