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Breaking News, Former Pope Benedict XVI Returns To His Father’s House Aged 95

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The Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI aged 95, passed away on Saturday at 9:34 AM in his residence at the Vatican’s Mater Ecclesiae Monastery.

The Vatican News, wrote

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has returned to the Father’s House.

According to the Holy See Press Office,  it was  announced that the Pope Emeritus died at 9:34 AM on Saturday morning in his residence at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, which the 95-year-old Pope emeritus had chosen as his residence after resigning from the Petrine ministry in 2013. Pope Benedict XVI,  became the first pontiff to resign in 600 years.

 

The statement reads,

“With sorrow I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 AM in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican. Further information will be provided as soon as possible.

As of Monday morning, 2 January 2023, the body of the Pope Emeritus will be in Saint Peter’s Basilica so the faithful can bid farewell.”

Pope Francis himself publicly shared the news about his predecessor’s worsening health at the end of the last General Audience of the year, on 28 December.

Source Vatican News

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