A new Vatican document on Mary affirms a Scripture-based understanding of her person and her pivotal role in salvation ...

Evidence shows Stephen Kiesle worked at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Windsor in 1979 — a year after the Catholic hierarchy ...

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on November 4 published Mater populi fidelis (“The Mother of the Faithful People”), a Doctrinal Note “On Some Marian Titles Regarding Mary’s Cooperation in ...

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 ...

Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI lived a fascinating and exceptional life. Millions of faithful Catholics not only have a desire to honestly know Joseph Ratzinger better, but have legitimate wonders ...

Pope Benedict XVI during Mass in Yankee Stadium in New York on April 20, 2008. (OSV News photo/CNS file, Nancy Phelan Wiechec). This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the ...

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 ...

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was the keynote speaker at a Vatican conference on the traditional Latin Mass in October 1998, seven years before he would become Pope Benedict XVI — whose funeral Pope ...

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 ...

When the former pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI, died on New Year’s eve at age 95, Pope Francis lauded him for being, among other things, a “kind” person (gentile in Italian). To paraphrase Blanche Dubois ...

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger gives a lecture in New York in January 1988. (CNS photo/KNA) Long before he was the prefect of the C.D.F. or the pope, the Rev. Joseph Ratzinger was a scholar. No one thought ...