Benedict XVI, Pope Whose Resignation Shook Catholics, Dies.

(Bloomberg) -- Benedict XVI, who shocked the world's 1.2 billion followers of the Roman Catholic Church when he became the first pope to resign in almost six centuries, has died. The future pope dreamed of a life in the priesthood since the age of 5 when the archbishop of Munich, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, visited his kindergarten class. Faulhaber himself ordained Ratzinger as a priest in 1951. [Extracted from the article]