BERLIN — A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany's Munich diocese has faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI's handling of cases when he was archbishop in the 1970s and 1980s. The law firm that ...

VATICAN CITY -- Dignitaries and religious leaders have been paying tribute to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died Saturday in a monastery in the Vatican at the age of 95. Benedict, who was the first ...

ROME — Retired Pope Benedict XVI is asking forgiveness for any "grievous faults" in his handling of clergy sex abuse cases. But he is not admitting to any personal or specific wrongdoing after an ...

Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022), the 265th pope, served from April 19, 2005, to February 28, 2013—a period of 7 years, 10 months, and 10 days. He voluntarily resigned from the papal office. On February ...

Twenty years after then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger warned of a “dictatorship of relativism” on the eve of his election as Pope Benedict XVI, his former secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, echoed that ...

In an exclusive interview with EWTN News, Archbishop Georg Gänswein reflects on decades of service under Popes Benedict XVI, Francis and Leo XIV. Archbishop George Gänswein speaks June 13 with Rudolf ...

Marziyeh Amirizadeh, sentenced to death by hanging in Iran’s Evin Prison, says the intervention of Benedict XVI in 2009 saved her and another woman from prison and death. Amirizadeh, who now lives in ...