section_path: Catholicism today/Benedict XVI
section_name: Benedict XVI
paragraph_text: Benedict XVI
  
  With the election of Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, the Church moved to the right. Benedict decentralized beatifications and reverted the decision of his predecessor regarding papal elections. In 2007, he set a Church record by approving the beatification of 498 Spanish Martyrs. His first encyclical Deus caritas est discussed love and sex in continued opposition to more liberal views on sexuality.