Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Francis orders former Benedict aide to leave Vatican

A Vatican statement put an end speculation about what role Gaenswein, a powerful figure in the Vatican for more than a decade before Francis sidelined him after a personal falling out, would have.

 Pope Francis holds the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 8, 2023.
 Pope Francis addresses people as he arrives for the weekly general audience at the Vatican, June 8, 2022.

Pope says Church conservatives exploited death of ex-pope Benedict

 People gather at St. Peter's Square on the day of the funeral of former Pope Benedict at the Vatican, January 5, 2023.

Supporters demand sainthood for Benedict as Pope Francis leads funeral

 Faithful pay homage to former Pope Benedict, as his body lies in state at St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, January 3, 2023.

Benedict funeral to be similar to that of reigning popes


World Jewish Congress mourns former pope Benedict XVI

Former pope Benedict XVI passed away on Saturday after having fallen ill last week.

 World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder speaks in a video address to the Jerusalem Post 10th Annual Conference, October 12, 2021

Former Pope Benedict dies at age 95

The Vatican had said in a statement on Wednesday that the former Pope had suffered a sudden "worsening" of his health.

 Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI gestures at the Munich Airport before his departure to Rome, June 22, 2020. Former Pope Benedict traveled to his native Germany last week to visit his ailing older brother.

Pope Francis says ex-pope Benedict is 'very sick', asks for prayers

Benedict, 95, in 2013 became the first pope in some 600 years to resign. He has been living in the Vatican since then.

 Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI gestures at the Munich Airport before his departure to Rome, June 22, 2020. Former Pope Benedict traveled to his native Germany last week to visit his ailing older brother.

Hitler’s pope, Pius XII, should finally be canceled -opinion

Only one pope ever bore actual witness to a genocide and did absolutely nothing about it, and that was Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII.

 POPE PIUS XII appears in an undated file photo from the archives of Vatican newspaper ‘Osservatore Romano.’

Ex-Pope Benedict acknowledges 'errors' but no blame in abuse handling

The Vatican issued a letter by Benedict and a three-page addendum as victims lamented a lost opportunity for healing from a scandal that has rattled the worldwide Catholic Church.

 People stand near St. Peter's Square on the day former Pope Benedict acknowledged that errors occurred in the handling of sexual abuse cases while he was Archbishop of Munich, at the Vatican, February 8, 2022.

Ex-Pope Benedict criticized in Munich Church abuse report

The report, commissioned by the archdiocese, said there were at least 497 victims of abuse, mainly young males. Many other cases had probably not been reported, said the lawyers.

Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful as he arrives in St Peter's Square to hold his last general audience at the Vatican, February 27, 2013.