When it comes to the late Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Ratzinger, I can think of no such idiom. I can point to his tenure at the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, when he was ...

Before concluding, Benedict XVI announced that, just as at the beginning of his pontificate John Paul II had continued the reflections on Christian virtues begun by Pope John Paul I, in coming ...

On the day after his election, Pope Benedict XVI addressed the cardinals with a message of unity ... (Messori, 105) Mary—"Completely a Christian" Fifteen years later, in 2000, Cardinal Ratzinger's ...

Everyone knows that the Christian family is a special sign of ... a ‘small domestic church’" (Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Participants in the Ecclesial Diocesan Convention ...

“I have arrived this far, taken these actions, removed these people, now it’s your turn,” said Benedict XVI, according to “Hope: The Autobiography,” by Pope Francis, out Tuesday.

Related: Timeline of Pope Benedict XVI and the Jews ... a Good Friday prayer that many view as antisemitic because it prays for the conversion of Jews to Christianity. (Benedict’s successor ...

(Jan. 4, 11A, “Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to resign was a tragic mistake”) However, his statement that Pope Benedict XVI’s “abandonment resulted in the election of a new pope” is ...

Richard Williamson, Catholic Bishop Whose Denial of Holocaust Embarrassed Pope Benedict XVI, Dies ROME (AP ... would have turned up Williamson’s views. Williamson later ran afoul of the ...

Mourners gathered at the Vatican to pay their last respects to retired Pope Benedict XVI. Pope Francis presided over the funeral of his predecessor at St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday.