Pope Francis: Benedict XVI Defended Me in Face of Accusations ‘That I Promoted Gay Marriage’
‘He told them: ‘This is not a heresy.’ How he defended me!... He always defended me.’
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Pope Francis and Conclave Secrecy
COMMENTARY: The revelations in the Holy Father’s biography may be of greater or lesser interest, but it is safe to consider them legal.
Pope Francis: I Was ‘Used’ Against Ratzinger in 2005 Conclave, But He Was ‘My Candidate’
Pope Francis also revealed that while others were putting his name forward in the hopes of forcing a stalemate, he believed Cardinal Ratzinger 'was the only one at that time [who] could be Pope.'
Benedict XVI and the Call to Holiness
The battle between the Holy Ghost and the Zeitgeist is made manifest in the perennial battle between traditional Church teaching and its abandonment to fads and fashion.
50 Years Ago, the Future Benedict XVI Warned Us About the Dangers of AI
‘When functions are all that exist,’ said Father Joseph Ratzinger in 1973, ‘man, too, is nothing more than a function.’
Pope Benedict XVI’s Christocentric Ecclesiology and the National Eucharistic Revival
Benedict showed us that only a Christocentric Church, nourished by the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, can hope to navigate the current culture and continue into the future.
Benedict XVI Was the Pope of the One Truth
With Joseph Ratzinger, at the beginning of the third millennium, a final Platonist had once again become the successor of the Apostle Peter.
Benedict XVI: Friends and Scholars Recall His Life, Legacy and Teaching
His friendship with Christ, love for truth, and ‘remarkable’ ability to communicate were just some of the late pontiff’s qualities remembered at a two-day Rome conference on the first anniversary of his death.
Father Lombardi: Pope Benedict XVI’s Great Service Was to Present the Face of Jesus to Contemporary Society
INTERVIEW: One year after the death of the German Pope, his former spokesman takes a look back at his pontificate, which encompassed the publication of his trilogy on Jesus of Nazareth.
Pope Francis Says Benedict XVI ‘Blesses Us and Accompanies Us’ From Heaven
In his final Angelus address of 2023, Pope Francis paid tribute to Pope Benedict XVI on the one-year anniversary of his predecessor’s death and reflected on how the Holy Family experienced hardships.
