With Pope Benedict’s death, Vatican enters a new era ...Middle East

When Pope Francis presides at the funeral of his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday, the event will offer something that does not come along often in a Roman Catholic Church that is 20 centuries old: It will be something new. Papal funerals ordinarily have occurred between a papal death and a papal election. There will be no election this week. Pope Benedict was the first pope to resign in more than 600 years. The last pope to resign, Celestine V (1215-1296) was denied a papal funeral by his successor. (The case of Gregory XII in 1415 was more complicated than a simple resignation, yet no pope presided at his funeral, either.) The world has never seen a sitting pope preside at h

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