Former Pope Benedict XVI, a German theologian who shocked the world by resigning his pontificate in 2013, died Saturday, December 31, at the age of 95, the Vatican announced.
“It is with regret that I announce that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died today at 9:34 a.m., in the Vatican’s Mater Ecclesiae Monastery. More information will be provided as soon as possible,” the director of the press service of the Vatican said in a statement. the Holy See, Matteo Bruni, which was presented in six languages.
‘ACI Prensa’, a medium specializing in religious coverage, assured that his death puts “an end to the transcendental life of a man of the Church who called himself a humble worker in the Lord’s vineyard.”
The British news agency ‘BBC’ highlighted that he was one “of the great theologians of the 20th century”. In recent years, he had acknowledged that when he was Archbishop of Munich from 1977 to 1982 “mistakes had been made in the handling of abuse cases.”
For the medium ‘The New York Times’, He was a pope elected under a conservative doctrine, “but shocked the world by resigning in 2013, the first to do so in centuries.”
The Spanish newspaper ‘El País’, in its online edition, assured that his resignation from the papacy was “besieged by one of the worst crises in the Church.”
The British newspaper ‘The Guardian’, likewise, emphasized his resignation, as it was the first from the Catholic Church in recent years.
The international edition of the ‘CNN’ chain highlighted that he was the first pontiff in almost 600 years to resign his position. Furthermore, he called it “a powerful and polarizing voice”.
The Reuters news agency noted that “child abuse scandals plagued most of his papacy, which was marked by missteps and a leaking scandal.”
*With information from AFP
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