Benedict XVI (126681)

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Giacomo della Chiesa, a small, highly intelligent man, disabled with a limp, was elected pope in September 1914, only weeks after the tragic outbreak of the First World War. Within 8 years he had died. Now, as then arguably, he remains a dishonoured prophet who worked courageously to stop the carnage, against all odds, and yet whose name today Pope Benedict XVI has made resound again in a world so troubled with violence, hatred and wars.