Pope Benedict XVI

2022 - 7 - 12

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Breaking: Benedict XVI is not dead (The Pillar)

Then yesterday evening, he tweeted in German, English, and Spanish that Pope emeritus Benedict XVI had died. The tweets took off like wildfire. Several media ...

Because to look at any question in a Catholic way means to talk with a lot of people, and to help bring their voices into the conversation. “I believe that this is because of the Church’s stand on the issue of life - when it begins, and that it should be protected - and that this is one of the manifestations of the deep divisions right now within our country. To be clear, that’s St. Chad of Mercia, not St. Chad of ‘Merica — though perhaps the new bishop of New Ulm will one day take that title.) But with a growing number of priests targeted by terrorist groups, experts and bishops in the country say it’s hard to frame the violence without reference to explicitly anti-Christian persecution. While we’re in England, Luke also put together a primer on the Catholics who will influence the selection of the next U.K. prime minister — and a little civics lesson on how somebody becomes prime minister in the first place. It held me in the war, and it holds me here,” the priest said. We at The Pillar have been covering a scandal over Vatican finances since well before most people thought it was a scandal at all. The war means that everything in Ukraine is different, and the Church’s pastoral life has changed too. But the current office-holder, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, turns 77 years old in just a few months, and submitted his resignation nearly two years ago. A lot of people thought it was fake right away — in part because De Benedetti had created the Cardinal Bertone account just one day before his hoax. Anyway, within about one minute of my hedged retweet, it became clear that the story of Benedict’s death had begun with the tweet from “Bätzing,” and that the account was fake — it had no twitter history at all, and was not followed by any German ecclesiastics or news services. Back in August 2021, the guy created a Twitter account for Bishop Georg Bätzing, who is president of the German bishops’ conference.

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"Benedict XVI dies": Fake news that caused a global stir (Aleteia EN)

A fake Twitter account attributed to the president of the German Bishops' Conference, Georg Bätzing, falsely announced the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict ...

The announcement of the death of the Pope Emeritus was made, supposedly, by the president of the German Episcopal Conference, Georg Bätzing. On July 11, the news of the death of Benedict XVI (age 95) began to circulate through social media networks. This is not the first time this has happened.

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The Once and Future Former Pontiff(s) (Catholic Culture)

Inevitably Pope Francis was comparing himself with Pope-emeritus Benedict. All comparisons are potentially odious, and this was no exception.

But Pope Francis said in that same interview that he would not want to return to his native Argentina to live there in retirement. He responded favorably to a suggestion that he might live at the basilica of St. John Lateran, which is the official church of the Bishop of Rome. He said that since he would be the emeritus Bishop of Rome, he should live somewhere in Rome, helping out at a parish. Let’s face it: a certain amount of confusion—or at least a bit of awkwardness—is unavoidable, if there are two Popes—one retired, one active—living in the same city. - Second, I should emphasize—in light of another set of rumors floating around Rome—that Pope Francis did not say that he plans to retire. He had posted a bogus report of the Pope’s death back in 2012, when Benedict was still in office.

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Twitter hoaxer raises alarm with false report of Benedict XVI's passing (The Catholic Telegraph)

A bogus Twitter account using the name of Georg Bätzing, the head of the German Bishops' Conference, tweeted a false report Monday that Pope Emeritus Benedict ...

“Twitter works well for deaths,” De Benedetti told The Guardian in 2012. The account, using the handle @BischofBatzing, was later removed. Before disappearing, the same account posted that the false report on the passing of the still-living 95-year-old retired pope was the work of infamous Italian Twitter hoaxer Tommasso De Benedetti.

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Lessons from a Twitter hoax that claimed Pope Benedict had died (America Magazine)

No, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is not dead. No, Pope Francis is not resigning. And no, the Vatican is not hiding a secret time machine.

No, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is not dead. No, Pope Francis is not resigning. No, Pope Francis is not resigning. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is 95 years old and clearly not in good health, and nine years have passed since he announced he was too frail to remain in office; it makes some sense that he would pass on soon. No, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is not dead. And no, the Vatican is not hiding a secret time machine.

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The chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, Georg Bätzing ... (TDPel Media)

Credit: © L'Osservatore Romano / Pope Benedict XVI in Vatican City on August 28, 2010. The chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, Georg Bätzing, was.

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Debunked: Is Pope Benedict dead? Prelate Death Rumor denied (Upto Brain)

Debunked: Is Pope Benedict dead? Prelate Death Rumor denied: There has been a rumor that has been circulating around as the former pope Benedict XVI turned.

Benedict XVI had been serving as the Pope and head of Vatican City for almost 8 years until he made the choice to resign all of a sudden. It was that the former Pope had died, and it even went viral on the morning of this Tuesday. However, it was revealed very soon that it was just a rumor and that the former Pope was still alive. Prelate Death Rumor denied: There has been a rumor that has been circulating around as the former pope Benedict XVI turned out to be the victim of those rumors.

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Pope Benedict XVI Death Hoax Debunked Check What happened ... (Social Telecast)

Pope Benedict XVI retired as prelate of the Catholic church and served as the head of the church and the sovereign of the Vatican city-state from 2005 until ...

Well, fortunately, Pope Benedict is alive and is 95 years of his age. After a while, the same Tweet said that the previous Tweet had been uploaded by an Italian journalist Tommasso Debenedetti. Information has become one of the trending topics all day long.

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