“I have arrived this far, taken these actions, removed these people, now it’s your turn,” said Benedict ... of the Vatican from receiving gifts worth more than $45. Pope Francis at an ...

ROME (JTA) — Always uneasy, the relationship between the Vatican and the Jewish community took another sour turn recently when Pope Benedict XVI announced he was rescinding the excommunication ...

Pope Francis writes that he visited Benedict at Castel Gandolfo, the papal vacation palace south of Rome, shortly after he was elected pope. “He gave me a large white box,” Francis writes.

because they were consecrated without papal consent. First as cardinal and then as pope, Benedict worked to heal the schism and bring the group back under Rome’s wing, fearing the spread of a ...

“I have arrived this far, taken these actions, removed these people, now it’s your turn,” said Benedict ... pope, Francis eschewed the trappings of grandeur. He refused to stay in the papal ...