After one of the shortest conclaves in a century, cardinals elected German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a noted conservative within the Catholic church, as the 265th pope Tuesday. It was 6:48 PM in the ...

During his life as a priest, bishop, cardinal and prefect, Joseph Ratzinger often spoke about the foundational theological significance of the liturgy and of sacred music and sacred art. And as Pope ...

‘He was just a wonderful listener. He listened and he could remember things. He could synthesize things in each of those seminars like an experience of a symphony where you hear all these different ...

Here are some important events in the life of Pope Benedict XVI. April 16, 1927: Joseph Ratzinger is born in Marktl am Inn, Germany. 1945: With World War II ending, the 18-year-old conscripted soldier ...

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 ...

Two Spanish theologians are the winners of the 2023 Ratzinger Prize, named for the late Pope Benedict XVI. Father Pablo Blanco-Sarto, 59, a professor at the University of Navarra, which is affiliated ...

The odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, long a loyal servant of Pope John Paul II and dean of the college of cardinals, stepped onto the balcony ...

Pope Benedict XVI, who served as head of the Catholic church from 2005 to 2013, died on Saturday at age 95. Look back on his long career of religious service Joseph Ratzinger (pictured second from ...

(RNS) — I first met Joseph Ratzinger in June 1994 when he was the cardinal prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. No, I was not being interrogated by the Grand Inquisitor. This was ...

Joseph Ratzinger - Pope Benedict XVI: What led a gendarme's son from Marktl am Inn to the most powerful office in Christianity? What was his charisma, where were his limits? Will the pontificate of ...

VATICAN CITY — Joseph Ratzinger, a renowned theologian and hard-line enforcer of Catholic Church doctrine for the last two decades, was chosen Tuesday to succeed his friend and close ally Pope John ...