Letter of Condolence from the Ecumenical Patriarch for the passing away of Pope Benedict XVI

The posters featured images of Pope Benedict XVI and St. John Paul II and quoted from their texts speaking positively about the old rite, which Francis has sought to restrict. 'For the love of the ...

Today marks twelve years since the new Father and Head of the UGCC, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, elected by the Electoral Synod of Bishops of the UGCC and ratified by Ecumenical Patriarch Benedict XVI, ascended the throne. - - His Beatitude Sviatoslav was enthroned on March 27, 2011, on Holy Cross Sunday, at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv. The ...

A potential legal case against Pope Benedict XVI over his handling of abuse during his time as archbishop of Munich has been dropped. The public prosecutor's office in Munich said on Tuesday it had 'discontinued its investigations' ...

Unconfirmed rumors in Rome currently suggest that Pope Francis is on the brink of sending Germany Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the former priest secretary to Pope Benedict XVI, as his new apostolic nuncio to Costa Rica. While there's been no announcement along those lines, the Spanish news site Religión Digital reports that the Vatican's Secretariat of State ...

The longtime secretary to Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged Sunday that his tell - all memoir, published in the days after Benedict's death, had been criticized for casting Pope Francis in an unfavorable light, but insisted that some ...

Pope Francis hits clearly different political notes than his predecessors John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Since the death of Benedict, who mediated for 10 years as 'pope emeritus' between his ...

... the conservative Catholic commentator and biographer of Pope John Paul II, opined in a column shortly after Francis' election that the sole disappointment in John Paul and Pope Benedict XVI for many ...

... many of the faithful are wondering whether the pope, slowed by a bad knee but perhaps less inhibited after the death of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, will make concrete and transformative ...

The number of conclave - eligible cardinals appointed by conservative predecessors Benedict XVI and John Paul II will continue to shrink. Francis could yet release new church teaching documents. (The ...

The Argentina - born Francis, 86, became the first Latin American pontiff on March 13, 2013, succeeding Benedict XVI who had become the first pope in six centuries to resign. The former Cardinal ...