The Pope appealed to St. Benedict for help "to hold firm Christ's central position in our lives. May he always be first in our thoughts and in all our activities!" Before concluding, Benedict XVI ...

Left: Cover of ‘Beyond the Crises in the Church: The Pontificate of Benedict XVI’ by Robert Regoli. Right: Pope Benedict XVI prays Dec. 8, 2007, in Rome. (photo: St. Augustine’s Press ...

Cardinal Kurt Koch celebrated a pontifical Mass at the tomb of Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, marking the second anniversary of the pope emeritus’ death. The pope from ...

The pope fell Thursday and hurt his right arm, the Vatican said, just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad ...

Pope Francis cites Benedict XVI only in a few passages in his over 300-page autobiography Pope Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, handed him a large white box containing several confidential ...

Francis is also in a unique position, in that he follows two popes who had a more conservative view of what Vatican II ...

Pope Francis falls and hurts his arm, Vatican says, weeks after another fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin.

Speculation about Francis’ health is a constant in Vatican circles, especially after Pope Benedict XVI broke 600 years of tradition and resigned from the papacy in 2013. The Vatican said ...

Pope Francis has injured his right arm in a fall, the Vatican has said, just weeks after he bruised his chin in a similar ...

The unmistakable feeling is that the hype before publication of Hope is yet another example of the triumph of marketing over ...

Following Benedict XVI’s resignation in 2013, the Catholic Church might not have survived another premature exit, writes Peter Popham ...