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Benedict XVI, first pope to resign in 600 years, dies at 95
Benedict stunned the world on Feb. 11, 2013, when he announced, in his typical, soft-spoken Latin, that he no longer had the strength to run the 1.2 billion-strong Catholic Church.
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