The odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, long a loyal servant of Pope John Paul II and dean of the college of cardinals, stepped onto the balcony ...

Ratzinger, a rigorously conservative guardian of doctrinal orthodoxy who turned 78 on Saturday and was chosen the Catholic Church's 265th pontiff Tuesday, went into the Vatican conclave a leading ...

The word conclave comes from the Latin “cum clave,” literally “with a key,” which conveys the image of the cardinal electors being locked in the Sistine Chapel until the new pope is elected. Isolating ...

After ten years as the President of the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation, the mandate of Father Federico ...

DECATUR - Roman Catholic leaders in Central Illinois say Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was elected pope Tuesday, is a leading teacher and theologian who will stay the course of the man he follows at ...

Shortly before noon on the day that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI, I was standing in St. Peter's Square with a smart young Carmelite priest from Ireland. We were watching ...

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany addresses the faithful as the new pope in this frame from TV, at the Vatican, Tuesday, April 19 2005. Bells chimed at St. Peter's Basilica Tuesday evening, ...

Bishop Barron, of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, referenced a homily given by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in April 2005, the day before he was elected pope. Bishop Robert Barron of ...