Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Munich, Germany, died on December 31, 2022. He was the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholic faithful. As Rabbi Soloveitchik ...

Twenty years after then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger warned of a “dictatorship of relativism” on the eve of his election as Pope Benedict XVI, his former secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, echoed that ...

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Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022), the 265th pope, served from April 19, 2005, to February 28, 2013—a period of 7 years, 10 months, and 10 days. He voluntarily resigned from the papal office. On February ...

In a wide-ranging interview with an Italian paper, Card. Camillo Ruini offered a forthright assessment of the Francis pontificate and flatly called Benedict XVI’s decision to resign “a mistake.” ...