Behind the limitations on the Latin Mass decided four years ago by Pope Francis, there would be a kind of conspiracy. It was ...

When the Southern Baptist Convention unanimously approved a resolution on June 10 that called for reversing Obergefell v.

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John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and our new pope, Leo XIV — had hardworking fathers who instilled in each of their sons important traits and values, many of which can be seen in the way they ...

Ratzinger Prize recipient Father Pablo Blanco Sarto speaks at the award ceremony on Nov. 30, 2023, in the state hall of the Sala Regia of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican.

Ratzinger served in that position until becoming pope in 2005, taking the name Benedict XVI. He resigned from the papacy in 2013, taking the title of pope emeritus. He died in December 2022 at age 95.

Ratzinger just happens to have had the admirable qualities of both. In eight short years, Ratzinger allowed us to form some vision of what it would look like for a church to be run in the true ...

Second, Ratzinger was a lightning rod for the most controversial elements of the John Paul papacy, from its battles against liberation theology to its teaching on sexual ethics.

In 1998, Ratzinger’s writings on Holy Saturday, were compiled along with paintings and commentary by the American artist William Congdon in a collection entitled The Sabbath of History.

Ratzinger’s “subversiveness” was noticed by his pre-Conciliar religious superiors, who had a shallower sense of Church history.

The Ratzinger I knew tried three times to resign his post in the Curia, had zero desire to be pope, told fellow Churchmen in 2005 that he was “not a man of governo [governance],” and only ...