Below is what wire services Reuters are reporting:
Pope Benedict will keep the honorific title
of "His Holiness" after he abdicates this week and will be known as
"pope emeritus," the Vatican said on Tuesday.
He will wear a
"simple white cassock" and his papal ring of office will be destroyed
according to Vatican tradition, a spokesman told a briefing.
He will lay
aside the red "shoes of the fisherman" that have been part of his
papal attire and wear brown loafers given to him by shoemakers during a trip to
Mexico last year.
Benedict on
Thursday will become the first pope in some six centuries to resign instead of
ruling for life.
Given the
rarity of the occasion, Vatican officials have had to decide what he will be
called and how he will dress.
Vatican
spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said he will be known as either "pope
emeritus Benedict XVI" or "Roman Pontiff emeritus Benedict XVI",
be addresses as "Your Holiness," and be referred to as "His
Holiness".
The spokesman
said Benedict had made the decisions concerning his titles after consulting
with Vatican officials.
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