VATICAN CITY -- Former Pope Benedict XVI, who died Saturday in a monastery in the Vatican at the age of 95, asked for forgiveness for those he has "wronged" in the spiritual testament published ...

VATICAN CITY -- Dignitaries and religious leaders have been paying tribute to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died Saturday in a monastery in the Vatican at the age of 95. Benedict, who was the first ...

NEW YORK — Former Pope Benedict XVI was remembered around the world and across the city’s Catholic faithful Saturday as a low-key luminary, steadfast servant and beacon of interfaith dialogue ...

Benedict XVI, the Pope Emeritus, has died in Vatican City at the age of 95 following a period of ill health. Benedict, who was the first pontiff in almost 600 years to resign his position, rather than ...

The Vatican was gripped Tuesday by a dispute over whether elderly ex-pope Benedict XVI was being used by the Catholic Church's ultra-conservative wing to undermine his successor Pope Francis. At least ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has died aged 95, Vatican News has announced. The pope died at 12:30 pm Kenyan time in his residence at the Vatican's Mater Ecclesiae Monastery.

Pope Benedict XVI died almost a decade after becoming the first pontiff to resign in six centuries. According to a statement issued by the Vatican spokesman, Matteo Bruni, the former pontiff breathed ...

A day after news emerged that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's health had worsened within a few hours, a Vatican official updated Thursday that he "is absolutely lucid and alert." "Although his condition ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Former Pope Benedict says in his memoirs that no-one pressured him to resign but alleges that a "gay lobby" in the Vatican had tried to influence decisions, a leading Italian ...

Francis is not the only Pope making headlines. Today Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI made his first public comments since he retired from the papacy on February 28–he wrote an 11-page letter to an Italian ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Former Pope Benedict travelled to his native Germany on Thursday to visit his ailing older brother, the Vatican said. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said Benedict, 93, flew to ...