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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at the Easter Vigil in St. Peter's Basilica on March 26, 2005, in Vatican City. / Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images

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Late Pope Benedict XVI’s “lost lectures” on God, Creation, Humanity Collected in New Book

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