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Global Affairs
Pope Benedict XVI: A man at odds with the modern world who leaves a legacy of intellectual brilliance and controversy


Real name Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger. Retired as pope of the Roman Catholic Church, after which he was given the title Pope Emeritus
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