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Pope Benedict XVI

Benedict XVI’s death and burial: Watching procedures become protocol

January 3, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News

“Protocol develops over time, and this has never happened before,” the director of the Vatican press office kept repeating in the days after the death of retired Pope Benedict XVI.

German pope made no secret of his love for cats

January 1, 2023
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News

Like any bona fide cat lover, Pope Benedict XVI’s face would light up and his hand would reach out at the sight of a fluffy feline — even when that soft bundle of fur was a squirming, feisty lion cub brought to the Vatican by visiting circus performers.

Pope Benedict saw Jews, Muslims as allies in defending belief in God

January 1, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News

In trying to help people understand how belief in God is a natural part of life and provides grounding for the values that protect human dignity and peaceful coexistence, the late Pope Benedict XVI saw Jews and Muslims as natural allies.

Former doctrinal enforcer used pontificate to crack down on sex abuse

January 1, 2023
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -– The late Pope Benedict XVI’s disgust over the abuse scandals marring the church was made evident even before his election as pope. In his forceful Way of the Cross meditations, drafted in the weeks before his election as pope in 2005, he wrote for the world to hear: “How much filth […]

Pope Benedict forged ecumenical friendships even as dialogue slowed

January 1, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News

During his many years at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith as well as during his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI made incisive contributions to the search for Christian unity, although some of his teaching also was read as ecumenically insensitive.

Important events in the life of Pope Benedict XVI

December 31, 2022
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News

Important events in the life of Pope Benedict XVI.

Church leaders remember Pope Benedict with gratitude

December 31, 2022
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News

Catholic leaders around the world who had been praying for retired Pope Benedict XVI reacted with sorrow to news of his death Dec. 31 but expressed gratitude for his years of service to the Catholic Church as a theologian and pope.

‘He did all things well’: Benedict’s former student reflects on his mentor

December 31, 2022
By Jodi Marlin
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News

By intention and providential design, Ignatius Press, established by Father Fessio in 1978, became the sole English-language publisher of the pre-papal books and the biography of the man who was elected Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.

Pope Benedict’s 2008 U.S. visit a whirlwind with timely, pointed messages

December 31, 2022
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News

When Pope Benedict came to the United States for a visit to Washington and New York spanning six days in mid-April 2008, some news accounts called the pace of his schedule “grueling.”

U.S. bishops call Catholics to unite in mourning the death of retired pope

December 31, 2022
By Julie Asher
Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News

Across the U.S., Catholic bishops called on the faithful to unite in mourning for retired Pope Benedict XVI, who died on the eve of the new year.

Church leaders remember Pope Benedict with gratitude

December 31, 2022
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News

Catholic leaders around the world who had been praying for retired Pope Benedict XVI reacted with sorrow to news of his death Dec. 31 but expressed gratitude for his years of service to the Catholic Church as a theologian and pope.

Archbishop Lori responds to death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, announces special Mass

December 31, 2022
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Pope Benedict XVI

Responding to the Dec. 31 death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Archbishop William E. Lori said he gives thanks for the “life, witness, and ministry of this ‘humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.'”

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