Benedict, the former pope, dies at 95
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Benedict XVI, the first pope in seven centuries to resign, has died at the age of 95.ELISSA NADWORNY, HOST: Pope Benedict the XVI, the first pontiff to step down since the 15th century, died today in Vatican City at the age of 95.The German born Joseph Ratzinger was a theologian by training.Before becoming pope, he served for a quarter century as Catholicism's top enforcer of orthodoxy.
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