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Will history judge Benedict XVI more kindly than his contemporaries?

2 January 2023

4:00 AM

2 January 2023

4:00 AM

This weekend I have been touring TV studios trying to set the late Pope Benedict’s life and work in perspective. Clearly, he was a man of enormous accomplishment: theologian at the Second Vatican Council, Archbishop in his native Bavaria, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal, Pope, and an author so prolific that even George Pell has admitted to having had difficulty keeping up with all his erudite writings.

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