Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, April 19, 2005, soon after his election. Domenico Stinellis/AP, FILE Before becoming pope ...

Pope Benedict XVI pauses to bless a bag of rosary beads for Dr. Thomas Rizzo after mass Saturday, April 19, 2008 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. Chad Rachman.

The tiny, but vocal group of Catholics trying to perpetuate the Tridentine Rite are pressuring Pope Leo to stop phasing out ...

Pope Leo XIV is on vacation at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, a 135-acre estate featuring multiple ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday. He was 95. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File) ...

Pope Leo XIV will visit the Castel Gandolfo in Rome for a summer holiday. The Lakeside villa is also home to dozens of hotels ...

Benedict was the longest-living pope, having surpa ssed Pope Leo XIII in September 2020. “With sorrow I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 in the Mater ...

Pope Benedict XVI's unprecedented announcement today that he will resign Feb. 28 brings to a close one of the shortest papacies in history, for which the pontiff will leave a legacy as a leader ...

Pope Benedict XVI, the bookish conservative pillar of the Roman Catholic Church who ended his turbulent tenure in 2013 by becoming the first pontiff to retire in six centuries, died at 9:34 a.m ...

Pope Francis sits by the coffin of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI St. Peter's Square during a funeral mass at the Vatican, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) ...

Pope Francis sits by the coffin of the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square during a funeral mass at the Vatican, January 5, 2023. Andrew Medichini/AP ...