Pope Benedict Returns To Vatican and Pope Francis

Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation in February 2013. Credit: Creative Commons/Andreijoshua. Two recent resignations have encouraged me to dream of a third. Pope Benedict XVI stunned the Catholic church by announcing that he would step down ...

Pope Francis travelled to Castel Gandolfo on Saturday to have lunch with his predecessor Benedict XVI in a historic melding of the papacies that has never before confronted the Catholic Church. The Vatican said the two popes embraced on the helipad. In the ...

As cardinals move to elect a new pope, the Vatican has seemed intent on getting people to forget the last one.

Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday vowed unconditional obedience to his successor on his historic final day as leader of the worlds 1.2 billion Cath-olics, when he will become the first pontiff to resign since the Middle Ages. Among you there is also the future ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Tuesday celebrates his 86th birthday as the first former pope in over 700 years at his temporary home of Castel Gandolfo -- the papal summer residence near Rome.

Gracias, 68, is archbishop of Bombay (Mumbai), having been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006. He was raised to the cardinalate in 2007.

Pope Benedict XVI's troubled papacy entered its final hours on Thursday before the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics will make history as the first pontiff to resign since the Middle Ages.

Pope Benedict XVI was spending his last night in his Vatican apartments on Thursday after bidding an emotional farewell to 150,000 pilgrims in St Peter's Square on the eve of his historic resignation.

Vatican City:Pope Benedict XVI will be known as 'emeritus pope' in his retirement and will continue to wear a white cassock, the Vatican announced Tuesday.The pope's title and what he would wear has been a major question ever since Benedict stunned the world ...