Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, April 19, 2005, soon after his election. Domenico Stinellis/AP, FILE Before becoming pope ...

Benedict was the longest-living pope, having surpa ssed Pope Leo XIII in September 2020. “With sorrow I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 in the Mater ...

Pope Benedict XVI, the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign as the head of the Catholic Church, died Saturday. Benedict, who was previously known as Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, was 95.

Pope Benedict XVI pauses to bless a bag of rosary beads for Dr. Thomas Rizzo after mass Saturday, April 19, 2008 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. Chad Rachman.

Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd gathered in St Mark's Square while crossing the square on an electric car on May 7, 2011 in Venice, Italy. Marco Secchi / Getty Images file.

Cardinals arrive in procession ahead of the funeral mass for late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023.

Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, appears on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican after being elected by the conclave of cardinals, April 19, 2005.

Former Pope Benedict XVI, who died Saturday in a monastery in the Vatican at the age of 95, asked for forgiveness for those he has “wronged” in the spiritual testament published following his ...

Pope Benedict XVI — then Joseph Ratzinger — is shown in the second row, third from left, with his third-grade classmates at Aschau am Inn elementary school in Germany in 1935.

But Benedict stuck to his original explanation, with a 2018 documentary, Benedict XVI: in Honor of Truth, providing supporting evidence that the pope emeritus felt he could no longer publicly lead ...

FILE—Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI arrives for his departure at Munich Airport in Freising, Germany, June 22, 2020. A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany’s Munich diocese on Thursday ...

Benedict XVI was the oldest pope to be elected at age 78 on April 19, 2005. He was the first German pope since the 11th century and his reign will rank as one of the shortest in history at seven ...