A reporter from a Catholic weekly magazine talks about the selection of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who took the name Pope Benedict XVI. For more I'm joined from Rome by Father Thomas Reese, editor of ...

The College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church selected German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as pope April 19. He chose the name of Benedict XVI, and was installed in the office April 24. Some have ...

The election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a noted conservative within the Catholic church, as Pope Benedict XVI is eliciting mixed reactions from Catholics and other church observers around the world ...

Pope Francis also revealed that while others were putting his name forward in the hopes of forcing a stalemate, he believed Cardinal Ratzinger 'was the only one at that time [who] could be Pope.' Pope ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, the Roman Catholic Church’s leading hard-liner, was elected pope Today in the first conclave of the new millennium. He chose the name Benedict XVI ...

As Pope Benedict XVI steps down today, we turn to a former Catholic priest who was silenced and expelled by the pope, then-Cardinal Ratzinger, in the 1980s. Matthew Fox chronicles his story in the ...

I almost missed the interview. Cardinal Ratzinger was sick the day of our appointment. When I arrived, I was asked whether I wanted to meet with the congregation's secretary. I agreed, figuring it was ...

IRONDALE, Alabama, AUG. 24, 2003 (Zenit.org).- For Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the crisis the Church is going through, particularly in the United States, is “a weakness of faith” that calls for ...

Today the New York Times featured a front-page story on the response of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to the sexual abuse crisis, during the time when Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was ...