Posted AT 3:36 PM EDT on 19/04/05
Germany's Joseph Ratzinger becomes Pope Benedict XVI
Vatican City —
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, the Roman Catholic Church's leading hard-liner, was elected the new Pope Tuesday in the first conclave of the new millennium. He chose the name Benedict XVI and called himself “a simple, humble worker.”
Benedict XVI, the first German pope in centuries, emerged onto the balcony of St.
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