The election of Pope Benedict XVI, formerly German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was met with mixed reaction from the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics. Many were quick to condemn the new Pope as a ...

Appointment to Lithuania’s capital city of Vilnius is in the works, according to an Italian Catholic news outlet.

Roten, S.M. Would you ask a Pope why he is still a Christian or why he is still in the Church? The question was put to Benedict XVI. Not recently, of course. The year was 1971, and Josef Ratzinger was ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is “very ill” and Pope Francis has asked for prayers for his predecessor, it was reported Wednesday in Vatican City. Born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger in Marktl am Inn ...

The revelations are contained in “Pope Francis, Successor: My Memories of Pope Benedict XVI,” in which the Argentine ... then ...

Catholic cardinals have elected the ultra-conservative Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, who was the late Pope s long-serving “enforcer”, as the new Pope. Is Pope Benedict XVI the type of ...

Among the most important modern Catholic thinkers, Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, fundamentally shaped Christian theology in the 20th and early 21st centuries. His collaborations and ...

Just two weeks ago, the pope was caught using the anti-gay slur “Frociaggine” (a Roman Italian word meaning “f—ggotness.”) ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has died aged 95 ... Benedict was born in Germany and named Joseph Ratzinger. He became the Pope in 2005 at the age of 78 to be one of the oldest pontiffs ever elected.

Benedict XVI leaves behind a ... that marked Benedict's time as pope and, later, as pope emeritus. Priest and professor Benedict was born Josef Alois Ratzinger on April 16, 1927, in Marktl am ...

then starting in 2003 as Ratzinger’s personal secretary. Pope Benedict XVI flanked by personal secretary Archbishop Georg Gaenswein during a Mass to mark the 900th anniversary of the Order of ...