Following the announcement of the passing of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Saturday at the age of 95, we look back at his long life and its main highlights with the following official biography.

Pope Francis is unlike any of his predecessors – not least because he is the first to write an autobiography while still in office, writes Catherine Pepinster. But while he uses the book to admits his ...

Thousands of people have been paying their respects to former Pope Benedict XVI at his lying in state in the Vatican. He died on New Year's Eve at the age of 95, almost a decade after he stood ...

The Pope appealed to St. Benedict for help "to hold firm Christ's central position in our lives. May he always be first in our thoughts and in all our activities!" Before concluding, Benedict XVI ...

Pope Francis cites Benedict XVI only in a few passages in his over 300-page autobiography Pope Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, handed him a large white box containing several confidential ...

Left: Cover of ‘Beyond the Crises in the Church: The Pontificate of Benedict XVI’ by Robert Regoli. Right: Pope Benedict XVI prays Dec. 8, 2007, in Rome. (photo: St. Augustine’s Press ...

(JTA) — Jewish groups are among those marking the death of Benedict XVI, the Catholic pontiff who died Saturday at 95, a decade after shocking the world by becoming the first pope since the Mid ...

Cardinal Kurt Koch celebrated a pontifical Mass at the tomb of Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, marking the second anniversary of the pope emeritus’ death. The pope from ...