Short reflections on the “legacy” of a great and influential person after his passing are always in danger of oversimplification. After all, a person does not reach the stature of a Joseph ...

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin awarded the Ratzinger Prize to University of Notre Dame theologian Cyril O’Regan and Japanese sculptor Etsurō Sotoo at a ceremony at the Vatican on ...

Today at the Vatican’s press office, a book series of great import for the theological world was announced by Bishop of Regensburg Gerhard Muller, the complete works of Joseph Ratzinger/ Benedict XVI.

After he was elected pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger took the name Benedict XVI to honor an earlier pontiff who argued for peace during World War I. Could it be that maybe–just maybe–he changed his ...

A reporter from a Catholic weekly magazine talks about the selection of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who took the name Pope Benedict XVI. For more I'm joined from Rome by Father Thomas Reese, editor of ...

“Dear friends, Advent is the season of the presence and expectation of the eternal. For this very reason, it is in a ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, whose death at 95 was announced Saturday, was a powerful intellectual force who shaped the Catholic Church’s theology for more than a quarter century before shocking the ...

Read the text of the speech delivered by Joseph Ratzinger from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica shortly after his election as pope. He chose the name of Benedict XVI. "Dear brothers and sisters, ...

2005-04-20 04:00:00 PDT Munich-- When 5-year-old Joseph Ratzinger watched Munich Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber step out of his limousine near his hometown, he told his father: "When I grow up, I want ...

The election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a noted conservative within the Catholic church, as Pope Benedict XVI is eliciting mixed reactions from Catholics and other church observers around the world ...

At age 16, Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, was drafted into Hitler’s military. He was assigned to an anti-aircraft unit outside of Munich that targeted Allied bombers, a job Ratzinger ...