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 ...
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI, gives a lecture in New York in January 1988. He died Dec. 31, 2022, at the age of 95 in his residence at the Vatican. (OSV News photo/KNA ...
I was struck with surprise several years ago to find that Father Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) began the first chapter of his “Introduction to Christianity” with a story of a clown. In ...
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 ...
When Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) turned 14 in 1941 in Germany, he was legally required to join the Hitler Youth. Ratzinger's father was a policeman and his mother a hotel cook. The youngest ...
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 ...
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), a Jesuit, anthropologist and prominent spiritual figure, experienced the powerful tensions of a complex twentieth century marked by wars, ideological ...
(RNS) — Any heir takes over any legal claims against the deceased, according to estate laws. 'I could get the shakes just thinking about how much I would have to pay out,' one cousin told Bavarian ...
As a theologian the newly elected Pope Benedict XVI has been described as Augustinian rather than Thomist and more “ressourcement” than “aggiornamento.” These are categories many Catholics may not ...
(OPINION) In a rite before the funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Vatican officials placed unique symbols of his pontificate inside his cypress casket, along with a scroll in Latin describing his ...
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 ...
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