Pope Benedict XVI

The Vatican is allowing the public to visit the new tomb of Pope Benedict XVI under St. Peter’s Basilica.

President Joe Biden has paid his respects to the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at the Vatican embassy in Washington.

The funeral for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was held in Vatican City on Thursday

Pope Francis joined tens of thousands of faithful in bidding farewell to Benedict XVI at a rare requiem Mass Thursday for a dead pope presided over by a living one, ending an unprecedented decade for the Catholic Church that was triggered by the German theologian’s decision to retire.

The Vatican says a written account of the history-making papacy of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI will be placed alongside his body in his coffin for burial Wednesday.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s longtime personal secretary has written a tell-all book that is coming out this month.

Tens of thousands of people have filed by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s body as it lies in state in St. Peter’s Basilica. Many of the first viewers on Monday were tourists, pilgrims or Romans who lined up near St. Peter’s Square before dawn. The Vatican said that by the time the first day’s viewing had ended Monday evening, some 65,000...

The reporter who was covering a routine ceremony by Pope Benedict XVI on Feb. 11, 2013, never expected what unfolded, or that her high school Latin would give her the scoop of a lifetime. Giovanna Chirri of the authoritative ANSA news agency was in a Vatican press room watching the event on closed-circuit TV when Benedict said calmly and in...

As the world mourns the loss of former Pope Benedict XVI, some have begun to ask what his legacy will look like.

A wealth of tributes poured in from around the world within minutes of the Vatican’s announcement of the death of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI.

The local Catholic community is waking up to some devastating news out of the Vatican this morning as Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died, as the Vatican informed. The archbishop of Boston, Sean O’Malley released a statement: “In all of my personal interactions with Pope Benedict (the sixteenth) XVI, I found him to be an engaged leader, thoughtful in his...

Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s statement also highlighted the former pope’s decades of service.

The Vatican said Benedict’s remains would be on public display in St. Peter’s Basilica starting Monday for the faithful to pay their final respects.

The former Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, has died at the age of 95.

A statement from a Vatican spokesman said Pope Francis asked for continued prayers “to accompany him in these difficult hours.”

A longtime Boston College professor — who knows former Pope Benedict XVI — was keeping an eye on updates from the Vatican with Benedict’s health failing on Wednesday. Pope Francis issued a statement Wednesday asking for prayers for the pope emeritus. “He is very sick, asking the Lord to console and sustain him in this witness of love for the…

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is very sick and receiving constant medical care at the Vatican.

Retired Pope Benedict XVI is asking forgiveness for any “grievous faults” in his handling of clergy sex abuse cases

Pope Francis is vowing to provide justice to victims of clergy sexual abuse after an independent audit faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI for having botched four cases of abuse when he was archbishop of Munich, Germany

A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany’s Munich diocese has faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI’s handling of cases when he was archbishop in the 1970s and 1980s