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"For the first time in 719 years, a pope is giving up Peter's seat of his own free will," says the German tabloid. "We are all human," adds the paper, a reference to one of its headlines of eight years ago: "We are all pope! "Yesterday's events will force the Catholic Church to follow a new path. Benedict XVI has never been as strong, now that he is so weak."
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