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Vatican secret keeper is retiring, and he’s spilling the beans for the first time
Pagano said that after Pope Benedict XV died, the camerlengo — the cardinal in charge of the papal treasury and accounts — went to his safe and discovered it was “literally empty.
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Pope tells why he chose the name of "Benedict XVI"
I chose to call myself Benedict XVI ideally as a link to the venerated Pontiff, Benedict XV, who guided the Church ... culture and civilization." The Pope appealed to St. Benedict for help ...
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100 years ago: Pope Benedict XV — RIP
Benedict XV. could not capture the imagination of the whole Christian world as his predecessor had done, that peasant-Pope who kept his simplicity, whose choice of the name Pius seemed so apt. Many in ...
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The Vatican and the Irish revolution, 1914-1923
Just about a month into the war, Cardinal Giacomo Della Chiesa was elected Pope and took the name Benedict XV. He strongly believed in papal authority. Back in 1910, his Lenten Pastoral had been ...
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Pope Francis handed box of papers over ‘most difficult and painful’ Vatican scandals by Benedict
Following Benedict XVI’s departure in 2013, Francis was elected pope, placing the Argentinean in the almost unprecedented position of having an in-person handover when he took office.
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The Vatican and the Irish revolution, 1914-1923
Just about a month into the war, Cardinal Giacomo Della Chiesa was elected Pope and took the name Benedict XV. He strongly believed in papal authority. Back in 1910, his Lenten Pastoral had been ...