Rituals for Benedict's Passing Could Be Template for Future Ex Popes
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Vatican City - When Pope Gregory XII, the last pope to resign before Benedict, died in 1417, the world was not watching.Gregory had stepped down two years earlier in 1415 and spent his remaining days in virtual obscurity hundreds of miles from Rome. He was quietly buried in Recanati, a town near the northern Adriatic coast.It will be vastly different for Pope Emeritus Benedict.The Vatican has pains
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