Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, appears on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican after being elected by the conclave of cardinals, April 19, 2005, Vatican City ...

Former Pope Benedict XVI has died at the age of 95 after a period of ill health, the Vatican announced Saturday. Dignitaries and religious leaders are paying tribute to the former pope, who in ...

Pope Benedict XVI pauses to bless a bag of rosary beads for Dr. Thomas Rizzo after mass Saturday, April 19, 2008 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. Chad Rachman.

The tiny, but vocal group of Catholics trying to perpetuate the Tridentine Rite are pressuring Pope Leo to stop phasing out ...

Pope Benedict XVI, the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign as the head of the Catholic Church, died Saturday. Benedict, who was previously known as Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, was 95.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday. He was 95. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File) ...

Pope Benedict XVI’s coffin has been put in its resting place in the grottoes beneath St. Peter’s Basilica. The wooden lid on the outermost coffin is decorated with a simple metal cross,… ...

Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd gathered in St Mark's Square while crossing the square on an electric car on May 7, 2011 in Venice, Italy. Marco Secchi / Getty Images file.

Pope Benedict XVI — then Joseph Ratzinger — is shown in the second row, third from left, with his third-grade classmates at Aschau am Inn elementary school in Germany in 1935.

But Benedict stuck to his original explanation, with a 2018 documentary, Benedict XVI: in Honor of Truth, providing supporting evidence that the pope emeritus felt he could no longer publicly lead ...