The Holy See Press Office said Benedict, the first German pope in 1,000 years, died in his residence at the Mater Ecclesiae monastery, which he had chosen as his residence after resigning in 2013.
The Vatican has been vague about what ailed Benedict, saying only that his worsening health was due to his advanced age.
For nearly 25 years, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict was the powerful head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office, then known as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
(CDF).
Conservatives in the Church have looked to the former pope as their standard bearer and some ultra-tradition
They have criticised Francis for his more
welcoming approach to members of the LGBTQ
+ community and to Catholics who divorced
and remarried outside the Church, saying both
were undermining traditional values.
Like his predecessor John Paul, Benedict made
reaching out to Jews a hallmark of his papacy.
His first official act as pope was a letter to
Rome’s Jewish community and he became the
second pope in history, after John Paul, to enter
a synagogue.
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