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Benedict, We Hardly Knew You

The essential disappointment of his papacy — for himself, and the West — was that once he found himself at the head of the church, his aspirations ran up against institutional failures within.

Pope Benedict XVI at Cologne airport, Germany, on August 21, 2005.
Pope Benedict XVI at Cologne airport, Germany, on August 21, 2005. AP/Eckehard Schulz, file