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Pope Benedict XVI delivers a personal final farewell to thousands of people on Wednesday and alludes to the Church’s troubles, saying at times it felt like “God was sleeping”.

The evolution of Pope Benedict XVI’s responses to allegations of child abuse by members of the Catholic clergy reflects a growing public awareness of the issue. But has he gone far enough?

The Pope is to resign at the end of February, saying that he no longer has the “strength of mind and body” required to “adequately fulfil the ministry entrusted to me”.

People lined the streets and poured into parks for the Pope’s visit to the UK in 2010 – here’s how Channel 4 News covered the first day of his visit.

The Catholic Church signs the Pope up for his own Twitter account but how many of his 1.2 billion religious followers will be reading his tweets?

As the Catholic church considers the removal of Jimmy Savile’s papal knighthood, his family speaks of their sadness at his victims’ suffering.

Scotland Yard is pursuing 340 lines of inquiry in the Jimmy Savile abuse case, including 40 potential victims.

Pope Benedict’s one-time closest servant is sentenced to 18 months after being convicted by a Vatican court. But the Pontiff may pardon him.

The former butler of Pope Benedict XVI appears in court in relation to the leaking of sensitive Vatican documents to the media.

Pope Benedict’s former butler Paolo Gabriele, who was arrested last May after documents alleging corruption in the Vatican were leaked, is ordered to stand trial on charges of aggravated theft.

Religion must be given a greater role in public life to push back a wave of “intolerant secularisation”, Baroness Warsi will argue during an official visit to the Vatican.

The Vatican rejects “unfounded” accusations made in the Irish parliament in July that it tried to cover up child sex abuse by priests and interfered in Irish laws.

The Vatican labels reaction to an inquiry into child abuse in the Catholic church “excessive” after recalling the Pope’s ambassador to Ireland.

The late Pope John Paul II moves a step closer to sainthood and is officially beatified at the Vatican before a crowd of over a million people, the largest in Rome since his funeral six years ago.

The latest WikiLeaks cable reveals fears of anti-Catholic violence in the UK after the Pope offered to accept conservative Anglicans into the Roman Catholic church.