Pope Benedict XVI indirectly acknowledged Wednesday that his nearly eight years as head of the Roman Catholic Church have not always been easy. Sometimes “the Lord seemed to sleep,” the pope ...

With the Church divided over the proper interpretation of one of Pope Francis’s writings, some Catholics are cheering on the defense of orthodoxy by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. About two weeks ...

Benedict was a liturgical pope, removing impediments to the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass and advocating its reintegration into the life of the Church. Catholic liturgy, or public ...

citing this as the cause of a rash of sex-abuse scandals in the Catholic Church. In a 6,000-word recently published essay, the now-retired Pope Benedict XVI declared that the freewheeling 1960s ...

At the age of 93 and nearly five months, Benedict XVI officially became ... the Italian aristocrat led the church for more than 25 years. By comparison, Pius XI was pope for 31 years and John ...