Pope Benedict XVI Resigns - Missing Word Cloze

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For the first time in over 600 years a pope, of the Roman Catholic Church, has resigned from the . On February 28, 2013 Benedict XVI stepped down as the highest Catholic  and stated that he will become an  pilgrim. In such a situation the College of Cardinals leads the church until a  determines the new pope.


The man who was born as Joseph Ratzinger, will still be able to carry his  name, but will be  to as pope emeritus. The Fisherman’s Ring, the symbol of papacy will also be destroyed. After  the pope was flown to his summer  Castel Gandolfo near Rome. Later on he will be taken to  near the Italian capital.


About two and a half weeks before he resigned the pope had read out a letter in which he to step down as head of the church, because he was not enough to master the religious problems of over 1 billion Catholics.


In his last in front of the assembly of cardinals in the Vatican, Benedict XVI said that he would  for the wellbeing of the church and for the new pope, Francis.