Italian Archbishop Suggests Pope Benedict XVI Resigned Under Obama ‘Pressure’

Posted on March 8, 2017

An Italian archbishop close to Pope Benedict XVI has claimed that the Obama administration may have been complicit in the “tremendous pressures” that led the former pope to resign in 2013.

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