The former pope was the first pontiff in 600 years to resign from the post rather than rule for life. | Reuters
Nov. 28-Dec. 1 – Papal trip to Turkey is a fence-mending visit including prayers with Istanbul’s grand mufti facing Mecca at the city’s Blue Mosque.July 7 – Pope issues a declaration allowing the old Latin Mass to be celebrated more widely, a demand of church traditionalists.Feb. 5. – Pope changes a Latin prayer for Good Friday services by traditionalist Catholics, deleting a reference to Jews and their “blindness” but still calling for them to accept Jesus.Jan.
Feb. 28 – Benedict formally steps down, moving temporarily to the papal summer residence south of Rome, and later moving to a former convent inside the Vatican gardens, with his secretary, Archbishop Georg Ganswein, and other aides and medical staff.Jan. 20 – An independent report in Germany alleges Benedict failed to act against four cases of sexual abuse in his archdiocese when he was Archbishop of Munich between 1977 and 1982.
Dec. 31 – Benedict dies in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican where he had lived since his resignation.
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