Spokane cat lovers honor Pope Benedict XVI

Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI comes home on Thursday to a new house and a new pope, as an unprecedented era begins of a retired pontiff living side-by-side with a reigning one inside the Vatican gardens. All eyes will be on Benedict's physical state as he is ...

Vatican City, May 2 (Reuters): Benedict XVI moved back to the Vatican today, opening an uncertain era in Catholic Church history where an "emeritus pope" and a ruling pontiff will live as neighbours for the first time.

When Pope Francis visited his predecessor at Castle Gandolfo in March, he said to Benedict XVI that "we are brothers." This image nicely frames the differences between them. It underscores that the election of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was not a ...

Pope Benedict XVI bid an emotional farewell Wednesday on the eve of his retirement, recalling moments of "joy and light" during his papacy, but also times of difficulty when "it seemed like the Lord was sleeping." Some 150,000 people, many waving banners ...

Cardinals prepared on Tuesday for the start of an historic conclave to elect a new pope after Benedict XVI's shock resignation, with the odds favouring a Western conservative to lead the Catholic world.

Pope Benedict XVI gave an emotional farewell speech to tens of thousands of faithful in St Peter's Square on Wednesday. A day before he becomes the first pontiff to resign in nearly 600 years, Benedict acknowledged that his eight-year papacy had been rocked ...

Polish Catholics are hoping that Benedict XVI's successor will be a conservative, but a more reformist one as the Vatican prepares for the election of a new pontiff. Most Poles are deeply attached to the legacy of the late Polish-born John Paul II, a ...

Ranchi, April 16: CBI today filed a petition before the court of additional judicial commissioner XVI and special judge (CBI) R. K. Choudhary for cancelling the bail granted to Jamshedhpur businessman R.K. Agrawal in the connection with the 2012 Rajya Sabha ...

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.