Benedict’s brief papacy was marred by the priest sex abuse scandal

[ad_1] In 2006, Benedict also forced the Rev. Marcial Maciel, the founder of a conservative Catholic order called the Legionaries of Christ and one of the church’s most notorious pedophiles, to…

Benedict XVI, the first to resign the papacy in 600 years, dies at 95

[ad_1] Benedict was considered a dominant intellectual figure in Roman Catholicism as he moved toward more conservative positions in the 40 years before he assumed the papacy. By 1981, he…