Pope Benedict XVI's body lying in state at Vatican

Conrad Hoyt

January 02, 04:20 AM January 02, 04:36 AM

The body of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is lying in state in St. Peter's Basilica as thousands of people line up to pay their respects on Monday.

Benedict died on New Year's Eve at the age of 95, nine years after he retired as pope, becoming the first pontiff in 600 years to do so. Benedict's body will be displayed for three days in an open casket at the church, with people allowed to pay their respects until 7 p.m. each evening.

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Pope Francis succeeded Benedict after the latter's surprise announcement. The camerlengo typically runs the Vatican between the death of one pope and the election of the next. This time, Francis will continue running the Vatican. Francis will also preside over the funeral at St. Peter's Square on Thursday. Benedict requested a funeral marked by simplicity.

Francis mourned and gave thanks to his predecessor hours after his death on Saturday.

“We are moved as we recall him as such a noble person, so kind. And we feel such gratitude in our hearts: gratitude to God for having given him to the Church and to the world,” Francis said in his remarks, according to a transcript provided by the Vatican News Service.

President Joe Biden, the second Catholic president, said he and first lady Jill Biden were mourning the death of the pope emeritus. The president noted that he met with Benedict in 2011 and said that the pope was generous and welcoming. "May his focus on the ministry of charity continue to be an inspiration to us all," Biden said.

It is not yet known which representatives of the U.S. will be present at Benedict's funeral, but delegations from Italy and Benedict's native Germany are expected to be in attendance.

Domino's flees Italy just after locals reject American-design and style pizza

Brady Knox

August 09, 11:23 PM August 09, 11:23 PM

U.S. pizza chain Domino's closed its very last store in Italy following the American pizza fashion failed to catch on in the dish's birthplace.

Domino's shut the last of its unique 29 branches, a considerably cry brief of the prepared 880 locations the franchise was scheduling to open in Italy, according to Bloomberg. The enterprise found that Italians considerably choose neighborhood pizza, total rejecting the American fashion, and it was not ready to get an edge in deliveries as third-party shipping and delivery services stepped up operations.

“We attribute the concern to the significantly greater level of level of competition in the foodstuff supply market place with both equally structured chains and ‘mom & pop’ restaurants offering food, to provider and dining establishments reopening put up pandemic and shoppers out and about with revenge spending,” ePizza, Domino's lover franchise in Italy, mentioned in a report to traders accompanying its fourth-quarter 2021 success, in accordance to Bloomberg.

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Domino's opened its first retailer in Milan in 2015, partnering with ePizza, and there was communicate about a motivation to applying community components, according to CNBC.

Previous Domino's main govt Patrick Doyle resolved to hedge his bets, likely on the logic that Italians take in so considerably pizza that they were being certain to get at least some takers on the lookout for wide variety.

"We never anticipate to exchange all of the pizza usage in Italy with Domino’s, but truthfully we only have to get a couple of events from every single shopper. The intake is so substantial for each capita there that if we get a few occasions from every shopper we can have — we can have a incredibly eye-catching organization in Italy," Doyle claimed, according to the Wall Road Journal.

But it appears that in the famously purist homeland of pizza, even that was asking as well considerably. The chain's distinguishing delivers of an American-model pizza, including toppings these as pineapple, failed to perform perfectly with locals. By the finish of 2020 the corporation was $10.8 million in financial debt, in accordance to the newest audited once-a-year stories claimed by Bloomberg.

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Domino's has bode considerably better in other areas of the continent, running 1,169 retailers in the United Kingdom and 457 suppliers in France.