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 ...

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 ...

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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(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 ...

News that conservative Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was chosen today as the new pope was met with both disappointment and hope in the Seattle area. “I hope God’s will is in control because this is not ...

News broke weeks ago that a new volume of Benedict XVI's collected works was being released in German with an updated version of a 1972 essay, which no longer suggests that the divorced and remarried ...

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 ...

2005-04-20 04:00:00 PDT Munich-- When 5-year-old Joseph Ratzinger watched Munich Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber step out of his limousine near his hometown, he told his father: "When I grow up, I want ...

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 ...