In this episode, we dive into a series of candid interviews conducted by veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O'Connell with ...

With folded hands, Pope Benedict XVI stands on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica April 19, 2005, before a crowd of nearly 100,000 people. (CNS/Catholic Press Photo/Alessia Giuliani ...

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI warned scientists that placing too much trust in artificial intelligence and technology could lead them to the fate of Icarus, who flew too close to the sun. In 2020 ...

in keeping with reforms introduced under Pope Benedict XVI in 2013. This structure allows the distinctive symbols of the papal office to be celebrated in a dedicated moment, without interrupting ...

Pope Benedict XVI paid homage to Benedict XV, who led the church during World War I, but also to St. Benedict of Nursia, who founded the Benedictine Order and influenced the spread of Christianity ...

In a statement May 13, the Dicastery for Communication said “Leo XIV inherits the X @Pontifex accounts used by Pope Francis and previously by Benedict XVI,” and a new account has also been ...

Sts. Paul VI and John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI, offered daily Mass in the private upstairs chapel; Pope Francis used the chapel in the St. Martha guesthouse, where he lived. The Pauline ...

Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II. But what about someone who leaves his native land for another country and serves not a government but the people of the place directly, trying to serve ...

The papal presence on social media began in December 2012 on X, then known as Twitter, under Pope Benedict XVI. Pope Francis was given the account a few months later, and he launched an official ...

Pope Benedict XVI made him the state’s first-ever cardinal in 2007, and for 19 years, he served as the archbishop of the Galveston-Houston archdiocese, home to more than 1.7 million Catholics.

In 2010, when Pope Benedict XVI visited the Rome synagogue, the staff of the Jewish Museum of Rome, located in the synagogue complex, planned a special exhibit illustrating part of that history.

Pope Benedict XVI had loosened restrictions on celebrations of the Latin Mass, which was used for centuries before the modernizing reforms of the 1960s Second Vatican Council, which allowed the ...