Great cultural change — the kind that upends our social givens — always spawns division. More times than not, the changes create fissures among us that can lead to whole new contests of social ...

Pope Benedict XVI, who served as head of the Catholic church from 2005 to 2013, died on Saturday at age 95. Look back on his long career of religious service Joseph Ratzinger (pictured second from ...

The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on the last day of year, just after Christmas, on the feast of St. Sylvester, was suggestive of a life shaped by the sacred liturgy, given his birth on Holy ...

COMMENTARY: His Holy Saturday life ended on Dec. 31 — what might this secular and liturgical date suggest to us in God’s providence? A portrait of the late Pope Benedict XVI is displayed in front of ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s 95 years of life started in a small Bavarian village in Germany and saw him rise to the pinnacle of the Catholic Church. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - FEBRUARY 28: Pope Benedict XVI attends a meeting with his cardinals during a farewell ceremony in the Clementine Hall of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace on February 28, 2013 in ...

Former Pope Benedict XVI was laid to rest with a funeral mass before thousands of mourners in St. Peter's Square Thursday, with Pope Francis presiding over the event and honoring his predecessor’s ...