Saturday, December 31, 2021 -Pope Benedict XVI has died.
According to the Guardian, this eases the way for his successor, Pope Francis, to consider whether to follow Benedict by retiring at some point – impossible while the outcome would have been three popes.
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer while paying their warm tribute, described Benedict as a clergy whose 2010 to the UK as a historic moment.
Other world leaders including Ireland’s Michael D Higgins, France’s Emmanuel Macron, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Germany’s Olaf Scholz also issued their heartfelt condelences.
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