Pope Benedict XVI enters retirement

POSTED: 08:42 AM PDT Mar 11, 2013    UPDATED: 09:21 AM PDT Mar 13, 2013 

What does retirement mean for Pope Benedict XVI?

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85-year-old Benedict's personal secretary, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, is to continue to attend to Benedict in retirement. But Gaenswein is also to remain on as the personal secretary or head of the papal household to the new pontiff as well, the Vatican has said.

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