On the anniversary of the election of Joseph Ratzinger as Benedict XVI, which took place 21 years ago on April 19, we republish the following article (08.10.2025) from a Formerly Perplexed Catholic. A ...
The body of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI will lie in state for the next three days, allowing the faithful to pay their respects ...
Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is pictured before Pope Francis' general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in this Nov. 19, 2014, file ...
ROME – Eighteen years ago, a College of Cardinals largely appointed by the pope whose reign had just ended wanted continuity, and so they elected the man who’d been the intellectual architect of the ...
ROME – Eighteen years ago, a College of Cardinals largely appointed by the pope whose reign had just ended wanted continuity, and so they elected the man who’d been the intellectual architect of the ...
Although the intellectual stature of Benedict XVI is a commonly accepted fact, even by many of his most fervent opponents, the true essence of his thought remains subject to all sorts of ...
Vatican, 05 January, 2023 / 2:57 pm (ACI Africa). Pope Benedict XVI — especially during his extraordinary career and ministry as a theologian and professor — was not only one of the towering ...
One of the most significant acts of the papacy of Benedict XVI, who died on New Year’s Eve, at the age of ninety-five, was, his obituaries seem to agree, his stepping down from it, in February, 2013.
When the former pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI, died on New Year’s eve at age 95, Pope Francis lauded him for being, among other things, a “kind” person (gentile in Italian). To paraphrase Blanche Dubois ...
The greatest service Pope Benedict XVI did the Papacy was his leaving of it, and the manner in which this happened — by and through resignation. By doing so, he set an example that cannot be ignored ...
When he was selected to become pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was 78 and had led a full life already. He had been in the upper echelons of Vatican leadership for decades, known as a defender of the ...
ROME — Pope Benedict XVI, the first pontiff to step down since the 15th century, died on Saturday in Vatican City at age 95. For several days, he had experienced declining health due to his advanced ...
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