Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, a respected German theologian whose eight-year reign was marred by the fallout from the global sex abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church, has died at the age of 95, nearly a decade after he shocked the world by becoming the first pontiff to resign in centuries. “Sorrowfully, I must announce that Benedict XVI, pope emeritus, died today at 9:34 am (0834 GMT) in the Mater Ecclesiae monastery in the Vatican,” spokesman Matteo Bruni said on Saturday. On Wednesday, Pope Francis described Benedict as being “very sick” and he urged the faithful to ask God “to comfor…