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The large events of Pope Benedict’s papacy and retirement

19 April 2005 - German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the caput of the Vatican’s doctrinal office, is elected to win Pope John Paul II arsenic the 265th person of the Roman Catholic Church. He chooses the sanction Benedict XVI.

9-14 September 2006 - The Pope visits his Bavarian homeland. He sparks protests from the Muslim satellite with a code quoting a 14th period Byzantine emperor who said Islam had lone brought evil to the satellite and was dispersed by the sword.

Days later, Benedict says helium was “deeply sorry” astir Muslim absorption to his speech, which helium says was misunderstood.

28 November - 1 December 2006 - Papal travel to Turkey is simply a fence-mending sojourn including prayers with Istanbul’s expansive mufti facing Mecca astatine the city’s Blue Mosque.

7 July 2007 - Pope issues a declaration allowing the aged Latin Mass to beryllium celebrated much widely, a request of religion traditionalists.

5 February 2008 - Pope changes a Latin supplication for Good Friday services by traditionalist Catholics, deleting a notation to Jews and their “blindness” but inactive calling for them to judge Jesus.

24 January 2009 - Pope causes uproar by lifting excommunications of 4 ultra-traditionalist bishops, including a Holocaust denier.

6 November 2010 - Benedict arrives successful Spain for a two-day visit. He attacks termination and cheery marriage, precocious legalised successful Spain, successful a Mass to consecrate Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia religion successful different pointed disapproval of what helium called Spain’s “aggressive secularism”.

25 July 2011 - The Vatican recalls its ambassador to Ireland pursuing an unprecedented rebuke of the Holy See by the Irish parliament successful the aftermath of a study that accused religion authorities of covering up intersexual abuse.

2012 - Through the year, Benedict’s papacy is shaken by a ungraded dubbed “Vatileaks” successful which leaked documents amusement infighting among Benedict’s aides and wide dysfunction astatine the bosom of the Church’s cardinal administration, known arsenic the Curia.

The ungraded exposed fiscal corruption and allegations astir the beingness of a alleged “gay lobby” that utilized blackmail to support its members.

6 October 2012 - A Vatican tribunal finds Benedict’s erstwhile butler blameworthy of stealing delicate documents and sentences him to a twelvemonth and a fractional successful prison.

Paolo Gabriele said helium had acted retired of “visceral” emotion for the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope. Benedict aboriginal pardoned Gabriele and the Vatican aboriginal recovered him a occupation successful a hospital. Gabriele died successful 2020.

11 Febuary 2013 - Benedict announces his volition to resign, saying helium nary longer has the carnal and intelligence spot to tally the Church. The astonishment announcement shocks a gathering of cardinals.

28 February 2013 - Benedict formally steps down, moving temporarily to the papal summertime residence southbound of Rome, and aboriginal moving to a erstwhile convent wrong the Vatican gardens, with his secretary, Archbishop Georg Ganswein, and different aides and aesculapian staff.

20 January 2022 - An autarkic study successful Germany alleges Benedict failed to enactment against 4 cases of intersexual maltreatment successful his archdiocese erstwhile helium was Archbishop of Munich betwixt 1977 and 1982. Benedict aboriginal acknowledges errors occurred and asks for forgiveness.

28 December 2022 - His successor, Pope Francis, calls for prayers for the erstwhile pontiff saying Benedict is “very sick”.