On Feb. 28, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI officially stepped down as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, citing a "lack of strength of mind and body." ...

VATICAN CITY -- Dignitaries and religious leaders have been paying tribute to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died Saturday in a monastery in the Vatican at the age of 95. Benedict, who was the first ...

In a wide-ranging interview with an Italian paper, Card. Camillo Ruini offered a forthright assessment of the Francis pontificate and flatly called Benedict XVI’s decision to resign “a mistake.” ...

Twenty years after then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger warned of a “dictatorship of relativism” on the eve of his election as Pope Benedict XVI, his former secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, echoed that ...

Born Joseph Ratzinger in April 16, 1927 in Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI was a prisoner of war who later rose to become Pope John Paul II's successor. At the age of 16, Ratzinger and members of his ...

Pope Benedict XVI is under increasing pressure to directly address the sex scandals rocking his church. Revelations of pedophilia by priests and cover-ups by Roman Catholic authorities began in the US ...