When Benedict the 16th became pope in 2005 he had a very hard act to follow. The biggest doubt about him almost a fear was that he would be an amazingly fierce doctrinearian. He loved playing the piano and on summer evenings he would play Mozart through the open windows of Rome. But his growing age and frailty led him to step down from the papacy last year, first time for 600 years.

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