Read the text of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation announcement.

NBC News posted a timeline of the pope’s life on Feb. 11, 2013.

On Feb. 11, 2013, Time magazine provided reactions from German leaders to the news about their native son.

Radio Free Europe posted a Q-and-A interview with Kishore Jayabalan, who heads the Rome office of the U.S.-based Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. Among other things, the institute official speculates that Benedict might move back to Germany.

A Feb. 11, 2013, Los Angeles Times blog post gives the reaction of Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, who participated in the 2005 conclave that elected Benedict as pope and who will travel to Rome to help choose the next pontiff.

Bruce Bastian is the founder of the B.W. Bastian Foundation, based in Orem, Utah, which works to support LGBT people and people with HIV/AIDS. Bastian’s story of growing up gay and Mormon was featured in the book Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America […]

A Feb. 11, 2013, CNN blog post explores the possibility of the next pope being from Africa or Latin America.

The Washington Post says Benedict made his decision months ago and told his brother, who is also a priest.

Rabbi Cindy Enger is the rabbi at Congregation Or Chadash, an LGBT-specific synagogue in Chicago.