 New York Times |
Discord Remains at Vatican as Pope Benedict Departs
New York Times VATICAN CITY — As the sun set on Rome and on his turbulent eight-year papacy, Pope Benedict XVI, a shy theologian who never seemed entirely at home in the limelight, was whisked by helicopter into retirement on Thursday. Pope Benedict XVI has removed the fisherman's ring, goes into retirement Catholics flock to St Patrick's Cathedral in New York to say farewell to pope Legacy of John Paul II lives on among Catholics |