Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin awarded the Ratzinger Prize to University of Notre Dame theologian Cyril O’Regan and Japanese sculptor Etsurō Sotoo at a ceremony at the Vatican on ...

The Joseph Ratzinger I knew for 35 years — first as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), later as Pope Benedict XVI and then pope emeritus — was a brilliant, holy man who ...

The document has raised questions in some sectors of the Church, although it is not the first time the Dicastery for the ...

No Catholic who wants to take an in-depth look into the faith and the reality of the Church of our time can skip the works of the "Theologian Pope", Benedict XVI. To really deepen one's knowledge, or ...

After he was elected pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger took the name Benedict XVI to honor an earlier pontiff who argued for peace during World War I. Could it be that maybe–just maybe–he changed his ...

The election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a noted conservative within the Catholic church, as Pope Benedict XVI is eliciting mixed reactions from Catholics and other church observers around the world ...

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 the ...

The facts are as clear as they are damning. From the documents, the priest fits exactly the model of arrested development I sketched out here. He seems to have been pressured by a bossy mother to ...

A reporter from a Catholic weekly magazine talks about the selection of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who took the name Pope Benedict XVI. For more I'm joined from Rome by Father Thomas Reese, editor of ...

SPIEGEL ONLINE presents images from the life of German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was elected Tuesday as Pope Benedict XVI. When he left Munich for Rome in 1982, then Bavarian state governor Franz ...

Read the text of the speech delivered by Joseph Ratzinger from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica shortly after his election as pope. He chose the name of Benedict XVI. "Dear brothers and sisters, ...