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Francis noted that in the novel, “everyone seems listless and passive, it seems obvious that the sick should be gotten rid of ...
Before concluding, Benedict XVI announced that, just as at the beginning of his pontificate John Paul II had continued the reflections on Christian virtues begun by Pope John Paul I, in coming ...
Pope Francis presides over the funeral Mass next to the coffin of the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Thursday at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) ...
The label reads, "Dedicated to the Great Son of our Homeland, Pope Benedict XVI." • Benedict XVI was the youngest of three children whose father, Joseph Sr., was a police officer.
News about Pope Benedict XVI, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...
The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...
The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate ...
Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni declined to explicitly confirm the authenticity of the documents, which were posted online ...
Speaking on the June 29 solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, Pope Leo XIV also called for maintaining ecclesial unity while ...
Pope Leo XIV deplored the use of hunger as a “weapon of war” in a message to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization ...
Recently leaked documents seem to contradict Pope Francis’ decision to restrict the Latin Mass, suggesting a majority of ...