Benedict leaves German homeland with complicated legacy


              FILE - Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful in front of the Old Chapell in Regensburg, southern Germany, Sept. 13, 2006. Pope Benedict XVI leaves his homeland with a complicated legacy: pride in a German pontiff but a church deeply divided over the need for reforms in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal in which his own actions of decades ago were faulted. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle, File)
            
              FILE - The popemobile with Pope Benedict XVI drives through the crowd prior to a service in Freiburg, Germany, Sunday, Sept.25, 2011, on his last day of a four-day-visit to his homeland Germany. Pope Benedict XVI leaves his homeland with a complicated legacy: pride in a German pontiff but a church deeply divided over the need for reforms in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal in which his own actions of decades ago were faulted. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)
            
              FILE - Pope Benedict XVI waves upon his arrival to the cathedral in Freising, southern Germany, Sept. 14, 2006. People hung out banners and spelled Pope Benedict XVI's name in flower petals on the sidewalk before his visit to the cathedral in the southern German town of Freising, where he was ordained a priest more than a half-century ago. Pope Benedict XVI leaves his homeland with a complicated legacy: pride in a German pontiff but a church deeply divided over the need for reforms in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal in which his own actions of decades ago were faulted. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
            
              FILE - Pope Benedict XVI waves to the crowd at the end of a papal Mass at the Islinger field in Regensburg, southern Germany, some 120 kilometers (about 75 miles) northeast of Munich, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2006. Pope Benedict XVI leaves his homeland with a complicated legacy: pride in a German pontiff but a church deeply divided over the need for reforms in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal in which his own actions of decades ago were faulted. (AP Photo/Wolfgang Radke, Pool, File)
            FILE - Pope Benedict XVI arrives for his speech at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Sept. 22, 2011. Some lawmakers of the Left Party refused to attend the speech in the parliament and their seats remained empty. Pope Benedict XVI leaves his homeland with a complicated legacy: pride in a German pontiff but a church deeply divided over the need for reforms in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal in which his own actions of decades ago were faulted. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File) FILE - German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center left, and her government listen to Pope Benedict XVI as he delivers his speech at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Sept. 22, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI leaves his homeland with a complicated legacy: pride in a German pontiff but a church deeply divided over the need for reforms in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal in which his own actions of decades ago were faulted. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
Benedict leaves German homeland with complicated legacy