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

The Joseph Ratzinger I knew for 35 years — first as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), later as Pope Benedict XVI and then pope emeritus — was a brilliant, holy man who ...

VATICAN CITY — Although the conclave officially began when the ornate doors of the Sistine Chapel closed Monday, the election of Pope Benedict XVI less than 24 hours later was virtually decided before ...

Benedict XVI's older brother Georg Ratzinger died Wednesday, just a little more than one week after the pope emeritus' visit. Msgr. Georg Ratzinger died in Bavaria at the age of 96 on July 1. The pope ...

Long before German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, theologian Tracey Rowland was engaged in studying his scholarship — a bevy of academic work that she believes should ...

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, the Roman Catholic Church's leading hard-liner, was elected the new pope Tuesday in the first conclave of the new millennium. Ratzinger chose the name Benedict ...

The Vatican's lawyer says then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger told a California bishop to make sure a priest with a history of sexually molesting children didn't abuse while the church worked to defrock ...

A French Jesuit and an American legal scholar were named the recipients of this year’s Ratzinger prize on Friday. The Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Foundation announced on Oct. 7 that Jesuit Father ...

The College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church selected German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as pope April 19. He chose the name of Benedict XVI, and was installed in the office April 24. Some have ...

Father Ratzinger, a trained musician, pursued a career far away from the world of the Vatican and the future Pope Benedict XVI. By Ari L. Goldman The Rev. Georg Ratzinger, a Roman Catholic priest and ...

A few weeks ago, I devoted a column to the grandiloquence of the rhetoric of the Catholic Church. The occasion, readers may recall, was the letter Vatican Cardinal Marc Ouellet sent to the U.S.

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, ...