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Riccardo Muti, the esteemed international conductor with strong Chicago ties, will be recognized by Pope Leo XIV this month with the prestigious Ratzinger Prize. The award, established in 2011 by the ...

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The prestigious Ratzinger Prize this year will go to Riccardo Muti, who was chosen by the scientific committee and the board of directors of the Vatican Foundation Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI. The ...

A new biography by Amy Odell offers an unflinching look at Gwyneth Paltrow’s life and career, from Hollywood royalty to wellness mogul. “Gwyneth: The Biography,” out now, traces the Oscar-winning ...

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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 ...

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(OSV News) — Some two dozen works of the late Pope Benedict XVI’s pre-papal writings will be made available in English, many for the first time, in a new translation project led by the academic ...

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI, gives a lecture in New York in January 1988. He died Dec. 31, 2022, at the age of 95 in his residence at the Vatican. (OSV News photo/KNA ...