Here’s a look at Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s life. Personal Birth date: April 16, 1927 Death date: December 31, 2022 Birth place: Marktl am Inn, Germany Birth name: Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger Father: ...
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 ...
He was appointed bishop of Salina, Kansas, by Pope Benedict XVI on Feb. 6, 2012, and ordained on May 1 of that year. Pope Francis subsequently appointed him bishop of Tucson on Oct. 3, 2017 ...
Pope Benedict XVI wrote to the Irish faithful in 2010 following the devastating revelations of the country’s clergy sexual abuse crisis. But it’s rare for a pope to weigh in on a specific ...
LOS ANGELES -- In the hit movie "Wicked," those famous magical shoes are silver. But if you want to see them in all their ruby-red glory from "The Wizard of Oz," there's no place like home - their ...
Pope Francis criticized President Trump’s mass deportation plans in a letter urging compassion and the preservation of dignity for migrants in the U.S. The pope, in his letter, recognized “the ...
Rome — President Trump's U.S. "border czar" Tom Homan lashed out Tuesday at Pope Francis after the leader of the Catholic Church strongly criticized the mass deportation of migrants that Mr ...
Pope Francis weighed in on the true meaning of “ordo amoris” – a theological debate that Vice President JD Vance sparked last month. Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, used the ...
The pope does not name Trump in his letter, but it is a clear directive to resist the demonization of migrants and refugees. By Clarissa-Jan Lim Pope Francis issued a fierce rebuke of President ...