{"id":532959,"date":"2022-12-31T14:34:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T11:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/pope-benedict-conservative-whose-resignation-shattered-tradition-dies-at-95\/"},"modified":"2022-12-31T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T11:34:14","slug":"pope-benedict-conservative-whose-resignation-shattered-tradition-dies-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pope-benedict-conservative-whose-resignation-shattered-tradition-dies-at-95\/","title":{"rendered":"#Pope Benedict, conservative whose resignation shattered tradition, dies at 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27394e4e16c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27394e4e16c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pope-benedict-conservative-whose-resignation-shattered-tradition-dies-at-95\/#Pope_Benedict_conservative_whose_resignation_shattered_tradition_dies_at_95\" >Pope Benedict, conservative whose resignation shattered tradition, dies at 95<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pope_Benedict_conservative_whose_resignation_shattered_tradition_dies_at_95\"><\/span>Pope Benedict, conservative whose resignation shattered tradition, dies at 95<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/benedictpope_101914_AP_Andrew-Medichini.jpeg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former pope Benedict XVI, who roughly a decade ago became the first pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church to resign in nearly 600 years, died Saturday at his home in Vatican City. He was 95.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy See said Benedict\u2019s health had worsened because of old age. He was being closely monitored by doctors at his home, a former monastery in Vatican City.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Benedict leaves behind a complicated legacy. His papacy was hounded by child abuse scandals in the church, and he himself faced accusations that he failed to address those allegations while he was an archbishop.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he was credited for making way for his successor, the more liberally minded Pope Francis, to transition the Catholic Church into a more progressive era.<\/p>\n<p>Benedict was also regarded as a great scholar of the Catholic faith, known for his powerful encyclicals, or papal writings, addressing spiritual and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> issues.<\/p>\n<p>He oversaw a commission that created the \u201cCatechism of the Catholic Church,\u201d a text <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roved in 1992 containing the fundamental beliefs of the church. And his first book as pope, \u201cJesus of Nazareth,\u201d was hailed as a compelling biography of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his theological life, Benedict was known as a more conservative member of the faith. He worked to uphold traditions and preserve the Vatican\u2019s image.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with an Italian <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>paper last year, Benedict said he often thinks about the day he resigned from the papacy.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt was a difficult decision. But I took it in full awareness, and I think I did well. Some of my somewhat fanatical friends are still angry, they didn\u2019t want to accept my choice,\u201d he said. \u201cThey don\u2019t want to believe in a conscious choice. But my con<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> is clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pope Benedict was born Joseph Ratzinger on April 16,1927, in Marktl am Inn, Germany, a small village in the southeastern state of Bavaria.<\/p>\n<p>He spent much of his youth in the town of Traunstein near the border with Austria, where he attended a seminary school. At age 14 he was forced to join the \u201cHitler Youth,\u201d and at 16, when Adolf Hitler rose to power, he was drafted into the Nazi army and served in an anti-aircraft auxiliary unit.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Benedict deserted the military in 1945, along with his brother, and was taken prisoner by U.S. forces for several months. When the war ended, he was just 18 years old.<\/p>\n<p>His time in the Nazi army caused some concerns as he rose in the Catholic Church, but while working under Pope John Paul II in the \u201990s, Benedict helped clear up Catholic-Jewish divisions, including by recognizing the state of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>After the war, Benedict studied philosophy and theology at the University of Munich, eventually earning a doctorate. He was ordained as a priest in 1951 and taught theology for years at several universities while also publishing numerous works in advanced theology.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In 1977, Pope Paul VI appointed Benedict as archbishop of Munich and Freising.<\/p>\n<p>In that position, Benedict failed to take action against clerics in four reported abuse cases, an independent commission found earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the commission\u2019s report, Benedict admitted he was in a 1980 meeting to discuss the transfer of Father Peter Hullerman, who is accused of abusing 23 boys during his priesthood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hullerman was not suspended from duties with the church until 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Benedict also said it was a \u201cmistake\u201d that he failed to acknowledge he was in the meeting in a previous statement, attributing it to an editing error.<\/p>\n<p>In 1981, Benedict became the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a watchdog agency for the Vatican charged with investigating serious crimes. He assumed the position at a time when allegations of sexual abuse against the Catholic Church were beginning to surface, especially in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Pope John Paul II appointed Benedict as Dean of the College of Cardinals in 2002. After John Paul\u2019s death in 2005, Benedict was elected to become the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>That came a year after a report commissioned by the U.S Conference of Catholic Bishops found 10,000 allegations of sexual abuse between 1950 and 2002, with the dioceses later confirming accusations against more than 4,000 priests, or 4 percent of the clergy at the time, setting off a yearslong scandal in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>During his papacy, Benedict struggled to contain the fallout from the scandal, including internal divisions in the Vatican cited as one of the largest institutional crises for the Holy See.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Benedict, who said he was \u201cdeeply ashamed\u201d by the sexual abuse accusations and that credibly accused priests had no place in the church, was repeatedly accused of covering up sex abuse crimes.<\/p>\n<p>When he resigned in 2013, Pope Benedict cited bad health and old age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry,\u201d he said in an announcement at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, in a 2019 essay, Benedict attributed the lengthy history of child abuse in the clergy to degrading religious morality in the church and a sexual culture that arose in the 1960s, saying more faithful and traditional books like his were \u201chidden away, like bad literature, and only read under the desk.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>He also noted that priests had strong legal protections before 2001, when he helped rewrite policies to make it easier to hold them accountable.<\/p>\n<p>The essay was criticized by more liberally minded Catholics and embraced by more conservative followers. Critics said it was thin and ignored the fact of documented accusations against priests stretching back centuries.<\/p>\n<p>At his last <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> audience in 2013, Benedict said he would not retreat to privacy and would\u00a0 devote the rest of his life to the Catholic faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have taken this step with full awareness of its gravity and even its novelty, but with profound interior serenity,\u201d he said. \u201cLoving the church means also having the courage to make difficult, painful decisions, always looking to the good of the church and not of oneself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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