- After only eight years on the papal throne, Pope Benedict XVI resigned his post as the head of the Catholic Church earlier today.
The resignation, the first by a pope in nearly 600 years, caught the world by surprise and set off a frenzied international debate about why exactly the pope resigned, why the Vatican and even Benedict’s closest aides were left in the dark about the impending resignation, and who the next pope will be.
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