Thousands filed past the body of Benedict XVI on Monday as the pope emeritus, who died Saturday at age 95, lay in state at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.
He will be buried by his successor, Pope Francis, on Thursday.
Thousands of faithful began paying their respects to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, January 2, 2023. He was known as a traditionalist —"God's rottweiler" — for fiercely adhering to church doctrine. But Benedict's papacy was a papacy of firsts. While he made a majestic farewell over the Eternal City in his exit from the papacy in 2013, he never exited the Vatican. While Francis championed Benedict's bravery to abdicate his power, having two men wearing white created the impression of two competing ideological camps: Francis the more liberal, Benedict the arch-conservative.
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