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Pope Benedict XVI has given his pontificate’s final blessing from his Vatican window to tens of thousands of people gathered at St Peter’s Square amid growing controversies swirling around his departure…

On the same day that the pontiff delivered his address, the UK’s Observer newspaper reported that three priests and a former cleric had accused the senior leader of the Catholic church in Britain of committing inappropriate behaviour against them.

Cardinal Keith O’Brien allegedly made the physical advances as far back as three decades ago.

Another wheel falling off? The Vatican is starting to look like a Nascar rally.