Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was named the 265th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church on April 19, 2005, at the age of 78, and chose the name of Benedict XVI. He was the first German pope in several ...

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. (ARTURO MARI ...

Ratzinger went on to become Pope Benedict XVI. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, ... Georg, in 1951.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, gives a lecture in New York in January 1988. Pope Benedict died Dec. 31, 2022, at the age of 95 in his residence at the Vatican. (CNS/KNA) ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, whose death at 95 was announced Saturday, was a powerful intellectual force who shaped the Catholic Church’s theology for more than a quarter century before shocking ...

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 ...

Pope Benedict XVI — then Joseph Ratzinger — is shown in the second row, ... Bishop Georg Ratzinger, walk through the garden of Benedict's holiday residence in Brixen, Italy, in 2008.

FILE—Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI arrives for his departure at Munich Airport in Freising, Germany, June 22, 2020. A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany’s Munich diocese on Thursday ...

Pope Benedict XVI, a ... The German-born spiritual leader — born Joseph Ratzinger on 16 April 1927 in Bavaria — succeeded the sainted Pope John Paul II ... Both he and his brother Georg, ...

Rome Newsroom, Dec 31, 2022 / 03:15 am. Here is a look back at the key dates and events in the life of Pope Benedict XVI: 1927 — Joseph Ratzinger is born on Holy Saturday, April 16, in the ...

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 ...

Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, is pictured in an undated photo. (CNS photo/KNA) 1951-59: Ratzinger studies theology at the University of Munich, earning a doctorate in 1953 and ...