Pope Is Quoted Referring to a Vatican Gay Lobby

The pope confirms he will complete Benedict XVI's unfinished encyclical. Vatican City: Pope Francis has confirmed that he is completing an encyclical that was begun by Pope Benedict XVI, on the subject of faith. Before announcing his plans to ...

Visitor says he 'is in a very bad way'. Vatican City: Just months after becoming the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign, reports are surfacing that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is in poor health with diminished stature and energy. After a ...

"I did not want to be pope," he said. His predecessor Benedict XVI once said he had prayed to God not to be elected pope but that "evidently this time he didn't listen to me." Francis also told his audience he had decided not to move to the official ...

At the time Benedict was living in Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer residence outside Rome, having resigned from the Seat of St Peter on February 28.

Two months after his historic resignation, Benedict XVI returned to the Vatican today, where he will live in a former monastery in an unprecedented arrangement that will see a pope and a former pope both housed in the tiny state.

Pope Benedict XVI was born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger . At age fourteen he was a member of Hitler's Youth. In 1941 one of Ratziner's cousins, a fourteen year with Down Syndrome was

Pope Francis flew in to a papal residence near Rome today for an unprecedented encounter with "pope emeritus" Benedict XVI -- the first time a pontiff has met his predecessor. The talks round off a historic few weeks for the Roman Catholic Church after ...

Pope Emeritus Benedicts deteriorating health has alarmed Archbishop of Cologne Joachim Meisner.

The two men in white embraced and showed one another the deference owed a pope in ways that surely turned Vatican protocol upside down: A reigning pope telling a retired one, "We are brothers," and insisting that they pray side-by-side during a date to ...