Pope Benedict XVI

  • January 20, 2023

Italian publisher releases book of essays by retired Pope Benedict

While the Second Vatican Council gave the Catholic Church a "beautiful" document on the priesthood, "it did not...
  • January 10, 2023

After Benedict’s funeral, publisher releases book by late pope’s secretary

Soon after Pope Benedict XVI was laid to rest in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica, an Italian...
  • January 10, 2023

At funeral, pope remembers Benedict’s ‘wisdom, tenderness, devotion’

Pope Benedict XVI "spread and testified to" the Gospel his entire life, Pope Francis told tens of thousands...
  • January 10, 2023

Scroll in Benedict’s casket briefly summarizes his life and ministry

Pope Benedict XVI was a renowned theologian, a "recognized authority," who left "a rich legacy of studies and...
  • January 10, 2023

Pope Benedict lived the faith he taught, says Archbishop Gänswein

The person closest to Pope Benedict XVI for the past two and a half years said the most...
  • January 3, 2023

Funeral Mass for Pope Benedict XVI will be based on a papal funeral

The Jan. 5 funeral Mass for Pope Benedict XVI will be a papal funeral with a few changes...
  • January 3, 2023

Tens of thousands pay last respects to Pope Benedict in St. Peter’s Basilica

Tens of thousands of people streamed through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their last respects to the late...
  • January 3, 2023

World’s Christians to be represented at Pope Benedict’s funeral

Representatives from the world's Christian churches will travel to the Vatican to attend the funeral Mass of Pope...
  • January 3, 2023

Benedict XVI’s death and burial: Watching procedures become protocol

"Protocol develops over time, and this has never happened before," the director of the Vatican press office kept...
  • January 3, 2023

Pope Benedict’s body solemnly, lovingly carried to St. Peter’s Basilica

The consecrated women who cared for Pope Benedict XVI in his retirement gently stroked his hands before his...