The former prefect of the papal household and longtime personal secretary to Pope Benedict XVI drew deeply on the late ...

Pope Francis voted for Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, in the 2005 conclave that followed the death of St. John Paul II. "He was the only one who could be pope at that time," ...

Leo XIV’s first apostolic exhortation focuses on loving the poor. Conservative American Catholics are sure to lose their minds over it.

Pope Francis voted for Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, in the 2005 conclave that followed the death of St. John Paul II. "He was the only one who could be pope at that time," ...

In the days before the conclave, almost every Cardinal who deigned to speak to the press declared that he was praying to the Holy Spirit for guidance in choosing the successor to John Paul II. The ...

“Simple and humble worker” had served as head of the Vatican office on church doctrine. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected the first German pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church in almost five ...

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