Former Pope Benedict XVI dies at 95
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🗓️ 3 January 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Pope Francis will reside over the funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict who died Saturday |
| 0:05.7 | at the age of 95. It's going to be an unprecedented occasion for a current pope to celebrate |
| 0:11.4 | the funeral of a former pope. Okay, so I have a question for you in Kevin because you |
| 0:16.3 | are our resident Catholic experts on this show. I don't know about that. |
| 0:22.0 | Where? Obviously, there has never been in our lifetime. And it's been, in fact, I think |
| 0:27.3 | it's been 600 years since a living pope oversaw a funeral of a pope, right? There's now, |
| 0:33.2 | there has not been two living popes at the same time. Correct. You go, you have to go back |
| 0:38.1 | 600 years. No other pope took the title of Pope Emeritus and then went on to reside in |
| 0:42.5 | the Vatican like Benedict. Right. So my question to both of you is, where do we put the pope |
| 0:49.9 | funeral on the scale of importance? Like is a pope funeral? Because there's only been one in my |
| 0:56.5 | lifetime. Yeah. Um, and the one that was John Paul and now one that you're talking about was |
| 1:02.8 | huge. It was a single, single largest gathering of heads of state outside the United Nations. It |
| 1:09.6 | was had over two billion people watch it on TV. So John Paul's funeral was right. A tremendous. |
| 1:18.8 | But so, but my question was it's like it with presidents, the more beloved the president, |
| 1:25.4 | the more beloved, you think like the funeral would be not to in any way demean Gerald Ford's |
| 1:31.0 | contribution to the country. But let's face it, Ronald Reagan in the annals of history was a far |
| 1:35.9 | more consequential president and more beloved by many people than Gerald Ford, who was a temporary |
| 1:41.3 | essentially appointed president. So the Ronald Reagan funeral was a bigger deal than Gerald Ford's |
| 1:46.6 | funeral was because John Paul was such an influential and and consequential pope, especially |
| 1:52.5 | as it relates to the fall of communism. Was that a huge deal because it was John Paul or will |
| 1:58.2 | this pope's funeral, who let's face it? And again, you guys are the residential Catholic experts |
| 2:03.2 | here. He didn't appear to be very well liked even within large swathas of the swathas. Is that |
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