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The Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, said late pope emeritus Benedict XVI should not be judged by the usual standards, at a funeral mass held for him on Saturday. Many were judging Benedict – whose birth name was Joseph Ratzinger – by his theological stance and above all by his church politics, Woelki said. Benedict’s teachings had been guided entirely by the belief that Jesus had indeed been the Son of God, argued the head of the western German archdiocese. “For him, remembering and keeping alive this central tenet was the only true reform that our Church needs today,” Woe…