"No, we are brothers, we pray together, " Francis told Benedict, according to the Vatican spokesman the Rev.
And he intends to go on living there for the foreseeable future, according to the Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi.
Benedict will now dedicate himself to a life of private prayer in the service of the Church, according to the Vatican.
Francis was born in 1181 or 1182 as the son of a rich Italian cloth merchant, according to the Vatican website.
Damian and told him: "Go, Francis, and repair my Church in ruins, " Pope Benedict XVI said, according to the Vatican's website.
Francis of Assisi was born in 1181 or 1182 the son of a rich Italian cloth merchant, according to the Vatican website.
The girls whose feet Francis washed in another move away from custom, were an Italian and an Eastern European, according to the Vatican.
Sunday's Angelus will not be Benedict's final public appearance, as he is scheduled to hold a general audience on Wednesday, according to the Vatican.
According to the Vatican's semi-official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, the Pope took the decision to resign after his trip to Mexico and Cuba in 2012.
Francis will celebrate his first Mass as pope in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, and will be installed officially as pope on Tuesday, according to the Vatican spokesman the Rev.
Benedict will keep working until February 28, meeting with pastors from Rome, Italian bishops, and the visiting presidents of Romania, Guatemala and other countries, according to the Vatican press office.
Damian, where Christ on the cross came to life and told him: "Go, Francis, and repair my Church in ruins, " recounted Pope Benedict XVI in a 2010 address, according to the Vatican website.
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Francis of Assisi, according to the Vatican's website.
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One of his most significant steps up came in 1981 when he took over as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, the Vatican office that oversees "the doctrine on the faith and morals throughout the Catholic world, " according to the Vatican.
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"Strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me, " said Benedict, 85, according to the Vatican.
"Strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me, " according to a statement from Pope Benedict released by the Vatican.
Both Edwards and Steptoe faced intense publicity and criticism from those opposed to the method, including the Vatican, after Brown's birth, according to the statement.
The source worked inside the Vatican, according to Nuzzi, who refused to give other details such as the source's gender, age and if he or she was clergy or not.
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According to Vatican lore, the smoke is black (due to the fact that the ballots were mixed with damp hay) when a decision is still to be reached and white when a new pope has been decided.
According to Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, the pope started thinking about writing the letter last summer after the publication of the Ryan report -- one of three separate reports on sexual and physical abuse by Irish clergy that has come out since 2005.
The Pope's shock resignation is an "eruption of modernity" in the Vatican, according to Ezio Mauro, chief editor of Italy's La Repubblica daily.
He sent a letter of complaint to his archdiocese, copying in the Vatican but bypassing Cardinal Ortega, according to people familiar with the letter.
He was runner-up in the 2005 papal conclave, behind then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, according to a profile by CNN Vatican analyst John Allen published by the National Catholic Reporter.
Certainly the Vatican does not, according to Consob, Italy's securities regulator, have a stake of 2% or more in the company, which would require disclosure.
One of Benedict XVI's last acts as pope, according to Vatican Radio, was to authorize the broadcast of video of the shroud from Turin Cathedral, where the mysterious Christian relic is kept, out of sight, in a bulletproof, climate-controlled glass case.
The night he was elected, according to New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Vatican officials and staffers came forward to meet the new pope.
He was driven to the site in a basic car, rather than commandeering his official motorcade, according to Vatican spokesman Rev.
However, authorities "could and must, eventually, intervene according to the principals of the national legislation, " the Vatican added.
Archbishop of Turin Cesare Nosiglia will lead a service from the cathedral on Saturday afternoon during which the images of the shroud will be broadcast, according to Vatican Radio.
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