Tag: Pope Benedict XVI

VATICAN CITY — For the nearly 10 years that Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict XVI lived on opposite sides of St. Peter's Basilica,...

OSV News recently spoke with Mary Ann Glendon, professor emerita of law at Harvard University and a former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See....

"Eros is … that force which 'does not allow the lover to remain in himself but moves him to become one with the beloved.'...

ROME  -- An Italian Catholic priest has been excommunicated for having publicly committed "an act of a schismatic nature" while celebrating Mass at his...

A year out from his death, I dearly miss Pope Benedict XVI. He was the pope of my coming of age. The generation of...

TRAUNSTEIN, Germany -- A pectoral cross of Pope Benedict XVI that was kept in the parish church of St. Oswald in Traunstein has been...

The longtime personal secretary of Pope Benedict XVI said he recently discovered the late pope had five cousins who could inherit a small amount...

Don’t miss a special 12-page section dedicated to the life of Pope Benedict XVI in this weekend’s edition of The Dialog. The retired pope died...

WASHINGTON  -- President Joe Biden did not attend the funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Jan. 5 and instead sent U.S. Ambassador to the...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI "spread and testified to" the Gospel his entire life, Pope Francis told tens of thousands of people gathered...