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 ...

During his life as a priest, bishop, cardinal and prefect, Joseph Ratzinger often spoke about the foundational theological significance of the liturgy and of sacred music and sacred art. And as Pope ...

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 ...

‘He was just a wonderful listener. He listened and he could remember things. He could synthesize things in each of those seminars like an experience of a symphony where you hear all these different ...

(RNS) Joseph Ratzinger perhaps will be best remembered as a quiet theologian and intellectual. But he was not, as some critics charge, a ``transitional'' pope. (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI battled severe ...

Two Spanish theologians are the winners of the 2023 Ratzinger Prize, named for the late Pope Benedict XVI. Father Pablo Blanco-Sarto, 59, a professor at the University of Navarra, which is affiliated ...

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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, a longtime guardian of doctrinal orthodoxy, was elected the new pope Tuesday evening in the first conclave of the new millennium. He chose the name Pope Benedict ...

ROME-- When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected to the papacy in April 2005, the popular forecast called for stormy weather ahead. This was, after all, the Vatican enforcer who had been leading a ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was chosen as the 265th pope on Tuesday, selecting the papal name Benedict XVI. Shortly after 6 p.m. white smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel ...

Ratzinger, the first German pope in nearly 1,000 years, was considered one of the frontrunners to lead the Roman Catholic church and its 1.1 billion followers. Following Tuesday’s vote, he stood at ...