Tag: Joseph Ratzinger

Mr Adam Lucas, who is “newly married with a baby on the way” and “has a Master’s in Theology,” speaks for a depressing number...

By Paulina Guzik Two cardinals pleased to call Pope Benedict XVI a friend reflected on his death and what the pope emeritus brought to the...

By Russell Shaw After spending more than 20 years as prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith during the papacy of...

When I learned of the death of Pope Benedict XVI on the eve of the new year, I prayed in thanks for the life...

Retired Pope Benedict XVI, who had an impressive record as a teacher and defender of the basics of Catholic faith, is likely to go...

By Dr R. Jared Staudt This February will mark nine years since the historic renunciation of Pope Benedict XVI. Joseph Ratzinger would have gone down in history as a great theologian without his rise to the chair of St Peter, although through his papal ministry he became a teacher of the world. The power of […]

My most important influence was my maternal grandmother, a ‘God, Queen and Country’ High Church Anglican

There is no doubt in my mind that this is the best of the six discernment papers

On 1 June the website of the Regensburg Diocese in Bavaria was marked by a simple black banner which read: “Georg Ratzinger ist heimgegangen”....

After speaking with Pope Francis, the Pope Emeritus has gone to Germany for the private visit.