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In a new book-interview, Pope Francis talks about his good relationship with the pope emeritus and sometimes difficult relationship with Benedict's entourage.
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In a new book-interview, Francis explains why he voted for Ratzinger—and how some cardinals tried to use Bergoglio’s name to avoid Benedict XVI’s election.
Pope Francis has described his predecessor Benedict XVI as a transitional pope, saying he was the only possible candidate to follow the upheavals under former pope John Paul II. Germany's Joseph Ratzinger, who became pope Benedict, was the only candidate who could be pontiff at the time when a new pope was elected in 2005, said Francis, the current head of the Catholic Church in an extract from a book due to be published in Spanish on Wednesday. "After the revolution of John Paul II, who was a d