Good morning from Budapest, where I am preparing to head to the airport to go to Rome for Benedict XVI's funeral. I will be in the crowd in St. Peter's Square, praying with the faithful. Before I ...

The Italian journalist Antonio Socci writes about something Benedict XVI said to his biographer Peter Seewald. Excerpts from Socci’s piece: The crucial question placed by Seewald to Ratzinger is this: ...

As we begin to take stock of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI's legacy, we should remember not only his extraordinary stewardship of the Chair of Peter, but also his legacy as a scholar and thinker.

Before a crowd of 50,000 people from around the United States, Pope Benedict XVI described the Church in America and society as a whole as being at a crossroads. American Catholics must use this ...

Vastly different issues confront every new pope. Yet only for the past century has foreign policy been such an integral part of the discussion. As evidenced by the coverage of the death and funeral of ...

VATICAN CITY — One year later, Cardinal James Stafford reflects on the meeting where Benedict XVI announced that he was stepping down as Bishop of Rome, noting that it was an “unexpected” moment of ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI on Friday (May 18) expressed his “deep gratitude” to American nuns for their “fidelity and self-sacrifice,” and he praised the U.S. bishops for their efforts to ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died Dec. 31, was remembered as “brilliant” yet “humble” and “warm” in a discussion yesterday with some of America’s most notable Catholics. “Even if he had never ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died Dec. 31, was remembered as “brilliant,” yet “humble” and “warm” in a discussion yesterday with some of America’s most notable Catholics. “Even if he had never ...