When Benedict XVI became the first pope to resign in 600 years it sent shockwaves through the Catholic Church. Now, after spending two weeks in hospital battling pneumonia, the speculation in the ...

especially after the death of Pope Benedict XVI. In his 2024 memoir, “Life,” Francis recounted how he first learned about Benedict’s resignation, the first in 600 years. He said a Vatican ...

Pope Francis marked the 12th anniversary of his papacy Thursday with increasingly positive medical updates four weeks into his hospitalization for double pneumonia ...

2013 following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. On Sunday, Francis met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin and the chief of staff, Archbishop Edgar Pena Parra, for the third time at the hospital.

Pope Benedict XVI officially stepped down as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, citing a "lack of strength of mind and body." ...

“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.

March 13, 2025, marks Francis' 12th anniversary as pope. He holds the ninth longest papacy of the past 200 years.

Built on land donated by Pope Pius XI to the theologian and physician Agostino Gemelli in 1934, it has become known as the "Pope's Hospital." John Paul II even nicknamed it "Vatican Three," with St ...

(JTA) — Jewish groups are among those marking the death of Benedict XVI, the Catholic pontiff who died Saturday at 95, a decade after shocking the world by becoming the first pope since the Mid ...

especially after the death of Pope Benedict XVI. In his 2024 memoir, “Life: My Story Through History,” Francis recounted how he first learned about Benedict’s resignation, the first in 600 ...