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 ...

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 ...

From his Hitler Youth days to his role as the Vatican’s chief enforcer of dogma – “God’s Rottweiler” as he was known – Joseph Ratzinger’s past would seem the kiss of death for any other candidate for ...

After each of the four sessions of the Second Vatican Council, Joseph Ratzinger, the young German theologian who acted as expert adviser to Cardinal Joseph Frings of Cologne, Germany, published a ...

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 ...

April 20, 2005 / 3:30 AM EDT / CBS/AP Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, the Roman Catholic Church's leading hard-liner, was elected the new pope Tuesday in the first conclave of the new millennium ...

VATICAN CITY — Although the conclave officially began when the ornate doors of the Sistine Chapel closed Monday, the election of Pope Benedict XVI less than 24 hours later was virtually decided before ...

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 ...

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, ...