At the beginning of Pope Francis’s papacy his controversial predecessor handed him a large white box stuffed with ...

Pope Francis cites Benedict XVI only in a few passages in his over 300-page autobiography Pope Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, handed him a large white box containing several confidential ...

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 ...

Left: Cover of ‘Beyond the Crises in the Church: The Pontificate of Benedict XVI’ by Robert Regoli. Right: Pope Benedict XVI prays Dec. 8, 2007, in Rome. (photo: St. Augustine’s Press ...

After witnessing the funeral service for his predecessor, Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, in 2023 ... zinc-lined wooden coffin before being moved to the Basilica of St. Peter. The customary stop ...

A woman from County Donegal has said she was "humbled and honoured" to read one of the liturgical readings at the Requiem Mass of Pope Benedict XVI. The former Pope died on Saturday at the age of ...

(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 ...

Retired Pope Benedict XVI has published a letter which blames clerical sex abuse on the "all-out sexual freedom" of the 1960s. He said that cultural and historical change had led to a "dissolution ...

The coffin of Pope Benedict the Sixteenth ... Il feretro di Papa Benedetto XVI, il primo papa dimessosi dal suo ruolo in sei secoli, è stato portato in Piazza San Pietro accompagnato dal rintocco ...