VATICAN CITY -- Dignitaries and religious leaders have been paying tribute to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died Saturday in a monastery in the Vatican at the age of 95. Benedict, who was the first ...

Benedict is "deeply grateful for the understanding, support, and prayers" VATICAN CITY, Feb. 27, 2013— -- On his final full day as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI ...

Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement that he would step down at the end of the month is stunning but not surprising for a man with experience running a critical sector of the Vatican hierarchy while his ...

Irish prophet Malachy predicted the world will end after reign of current pope. Sept. 5, 2009 — -- The prophecies of the Irish saint Malachy, the 12th century bishop of Armagh who predicted all ...

The last three popes — Benedict XVI, Francis, and Leo XIV — have on more than one occasion recommended reading “Lord of the World,” the dystopian science fiction novel written by Robert Hugh Benson in ...

The odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, long a loyal servant of Pope John Paul II and dean of the college of cardinals, stepped onto the balcony ...

On Saturday, L'Osservatore Romano, the newspaper of the Vatican, published excerpts of a book-length interview between Pope Benedict XVI and the German journalist Peter Seewald. The book, Light of the ...

Holy Father, on April 16, 2005, your seventy-eighth birthday, you told your co-workers how much you were looking forward to your retirement. Three days later you were the leader of the universal ...

Twenty years after then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger warned of a “dictatorship of relativism” on the eve of his election as Pope Benedict XVI, his former secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, echoed that ...