Mary Maguire, who is from Letterkenny, read the second reading at the funeral in ... death of a former pope means for the Vatican Following the service, Pope Benedict XVI's body was returned ...

“I have arrived this far, taken these actions, removed these people, now it’s your turn,” said Benedict XVI ... he was elected pope. He has already dictated how his funeral will go.

While popes often tinker with the rules regulating the conclave that will elect their successor, a revision of the papal funeral rites became seemingly necessary after Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI ...

The Pope appealed to St. Benedict for help "to hold firm Christ's central position in our lives. May he always be first in our thoughts and in all our activities!" Before concluding, Benedict XVI ...

The revelations are contained in “Pope Francis, Successor: My Memories of Pope Benedict XVI,” in which the Argentine ... The book was published on the day of his burial, and I felt it was ...

Pope Francis has thrown a wrench in some of the speculation about a future conclave. He's decided to extend the term of the ...

ROME (AP) — Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him and other members of his ...