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When Pope Francis presides at the funeral of his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday, the event will offer something that does not come along often in a Roman Catholic Church that is 20 centuries old: It will be something new. Papal funerals ordinarily have occurred between a papal death and a papal election. There will be no election this week. Pope Benedict was the first pope to resign in more than 600 years. The last pope to resign, Celestine V (1215-1296) was denied a papal funeral by his successor. (The case of Gregory XII in 1415 was more complicated than a simple resignation, yet no pope presided at his funeral, either.) The world has never seen a sitting pope preside at h

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