Tens of thousands view body of former Pope Benedict

Vatican City Reuters A steady stream of tens of thousands of people filed into St Peter’s Basilica on Monday to pay their respects to former Pope Benedict XVI, whose body was laying in state without any papal paraphernalia ahead of his funeral this week. Benedict, a hero to conservative Catholics who yearned for a return […]
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