“It is with great sadness that I learned today that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has passed away,” Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, said in a statement issued Saturday.

The life of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI will be the focus of a special memorial Mass on Thursday, Jan. 5, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, in conjunction with the late pope’s funeral ...

The Pope appealed to St. Benedict for help "to hold firm Christ's central position in our lives. May he always be first in our thoughts and in all our activities!" Before concluding, Benedict XVI ...

A traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him has ...

Pope Francis has said former Pope Benedict XVI is very ill and he has asked pilgrims ... he asked people to "pray a special prayer for Pope Emeritus Benedict". The Vatican then said the ex-Pope's ...

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Arriving at a perilous time for the Vatican, Pope Francis paints himself as one of the good guys in his book Hope ...

“Today we entrust the beloved pope emeritus Benedict XVI to the most holy mother (the Virgin Mary), to accompany him in his passage from this world to God,” Francis said. Benedict, a ...

we need to recuperate the importance of the heart", according to the fourth encyclical of the pontiff - including 'Lumen ...