“Habemus papam” – We have a Pope. In 2005, Joseph Ratzinger was one of the most senior cardinals based in the Vatican. There was a sense that well-organised conservative Cardinals outplayed ...

ROME — With interest in a papal elections high thanks to the Oscar-nominated film “Conclave, ” Pope Francis threw a wrench ...

Francis said he put an end to the maneuvering by announcing that he wouldn’t accept being pope, after which Ratzinger was elected. “He was the only one who could be pope in that moment ...

Ratzinger highlights one aspect which is frequently overlooked and forgotten: the importance in the twentieth century of martyrdom. In this secret lay people, priests, bishops, and finally even the ...

A distinguished theologian, Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, 80, was the architect of the Catechism of the Catholic ...

Poor Pope Ratzinger is probably lying in bed with the shades drawn over all this. The Pope spoke of Curial corruption, including the presence of a “gay lobby” in the Vatican. He also talked ...

where Joseph Ratzinger was archbishop between 1977 and 1985 Speaking from the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican to members of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Pope Francis said “the ...

“Though as a teenager he was a member of the Hitler Youth, all his life Cardinal Ratzinger has atoned for the fact,” the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement after his election as pop ...

Preserving authenticity in celebrations of the Sacred Liturgy has been a prominent concern of Pope Benedict XVI (formerly known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) for more than 25 years.

Francis is also not the first pope to share his life story. As a cardinal, Joseph Ratzinger wrote an autobiography which was published in 1997, eight years before he became Pope Benedict XVI ...

Pope Francis is also not the first pope to share his life story. As a cardinal, the late Joseph Ratzinger wrote an autobiography that was published in 1997, eight years before he became Pope ...