VATICAN CITY The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, who last week renounced what for nearly 600 years has been a lifelong office, will reverberate for years to come and could change the nature of the modern papacy, starting with the election of his successor.
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Mark Baker Associated Press file, 2008 Cardinal George Pell, the archbishop of Sydney, seen at a news conference for World Youth Day in Australia in 2008, said in a recent interview that he worries Pope Benedict's resignation could prompt those who disagree with a pope to "mount a future campaign to get him to resign."
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