Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, appears on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican after being elected by the conclave of cardinals, April 19, 2005, Vatican City ...

After the Second Vatican Council open discussion was suppressed by Joseph Ratzinger under the papacy of John Paul. If you did not agree with the Vatican, you were silenced.

Pope Benedict XVI — then Joseph Ratzinger — is shown in the second row, third from left, with his third-grade classmates at Aschau am Inn elementary school in Germany in 1935.

RELIGION Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI dead at 95, Vatican says Pope Benedict, born in 1927 as Joseph Ratzinger, was the first pope to resign from his office in over half a millennium.

Pope Benedict XVI, a fierce defender of church dogma who became the first pontiff in six centuries to abdicate the papacy, has died.

The Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation awarded its annual Ratzinger Prize this week to two Spaniards.

Pope Benedict XVI led an extraordinary life that included a wartime childhood in Nazi Germany, a key role at the Second Vatican Council, and his election to the papacy.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday. He was 95.

Pope emeritus Benedict XVI celebrates his 90th birthday (April 16) with Bavarian delegates in Vatican City on April 17, 2017. Also in attendance was Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, Benedict's 93-year ...

The Vatican announced Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022, that Pope Benedict XVI, the former Joseph Ratzinger, died at age 95. Born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger on April 16, 1927, in Marktl am Inn, Germany, he ...

Pope Benedict XVI replaces his zucchetto after a wind gust as his personal secretary, Msgr. Georg Ganswein, assists during the pontiff's general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in ...

The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is stable but his condition remains serious.