“It is superstition to think that the Virgin Mary has the role of holding back God’s wrath. Whoever thinks this way is not in ...

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on November 4 published Mater populi fidelis (“The Mother of the Faithful People” ...

The Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation awarded its annual Ratzinger Prize this week to two Spaniards, the theologian Father Pablo Blanco Sarto and the philosopher Professor Francesc ...

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 ...

“‘God is dead’ is the most misquoted and abused of Nietzsche’s one-liners,” commented Anna Khachiyan in a recent episode on the “Red Scare” podcast. “And I think,” replied Dasha Nekrasova, her co-host ...

«In several seminaries homosexual "clubs" were formed which acted more or less openly and which clearly transformed the climate in the seminaries». This is what we read in "What is Christianity" book ...

The 2019 film “The Two Popes” presents Francis as a warm, avuncular man of the people. His predecessor Benedict XVI, the pope emeritus who was laid to rest in the Vatican on Thursday, couldn’t be more ...

In January 1988, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then at the height of his notoriety as “God’s Rottweiler”, arrived at Cambridge University’s Catholic chaplaincy to give the annual St John Fisher Memorial ...

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 long-anticipated death of Josef Ratzinger—head of the Catholic Church between 2005 and 2013 as Pope Benedict XVI—has led to a deluge of the kind of vacuous eulogising that accompanies the passing ...

Benedict XVI, who died on December 31, 2022, was without question a conservative pope. His funeral is taking place on Thursday in Rome. Joseph Ratzinger was a true conservative. As the prefect of the ...