Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected pope
On this day in 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, after the death of Pope John Paul II. He reigned as Pope Benedict XVI for eight years, amidst criticism and controversy, before abdicating the papacy just weeks ago.
For a look at how this transition was covered, dip into the Newseum’s collection of 416 front pages from newspapers around the world, when the news broke.
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Oh yes. The obligatory hyperlink to the trendy, emotion-driven rant which contains some factual content upon which fantasies are contrived wherein the Church supposedly promised to be incestuous partner with the State yet failed to deliver. Never mind the failure to embed an opposing view or correction; that you even embedded that joke of a link at all shows fierce bias against not only the Vatican but scholarship, intellectual honesty, and fairness.
#1 Posted by Dan A., CJR on Fri 19 Apr 2013 at 08:57 AM