Joseph Ratzinger
The Synod on Synodality called for better liturgy. Will anyone listen?
By Thomas Reese — February 6, 2024
(RNS) — If the church is to have a Eucharistic revival, its liturgical texts should promote active participation by all people.
Pope Francis appoints men and women to build a synodal church
By Thomas Reese — July 10, 2023
(RNS) — These recent appointments show that Francis now understands that 'personnel is policy.'
Cross bequeathed by Pope Benedict XVI is stolen from church in his home region in Germany
By Associated Press — June 20, 2023
BERLIN (AP) — “For the Catholic church, the value of the religious object is not quantifiable,” the police statement said.
Pope Benedict XVI’s cousins stand to inherit his money. None of them want it.
By Tom Heneghan — June 9, 2023
(RNS) — Any heir takes over any legal claims against the deceased, according to estate laws. 'I could get the shakes just thinking about how much I would have to pay out,' one cousin told Bavarian Radio.
The legacy of a decade of Pope Francis
By Thomas Reese — March 6, 2023
(RNS) — Francis has opened windows that are difficult to close.
Traditionalists, reform and women
By Phyllis Zagano — January 13, 2023
(RNS) — So-called traditionalists have lost two icons in recent weeks, deflating opposition to reform on women's roles.
With Benedict’s death, a way opens for more formal rules for retired popes
By Thomas Reese — January 9, 2023
(RNS) — Symbols are important in the Catholic Church, and having two men dressed in white and called pope is confusing.
German cardinal guards Benedict’s intellectual legacy
By Nicole Winfield — January 5, 2023
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Benedict entrusted his life’s theological works to Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, who has spent nearly two decades organizing them in a 16-volume, 25,000-page opus along the lines of Thomas Aquinas’ 'Summa Theologica.'
Highlights from the life of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
By The Associated Press — December 31, 2022
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Highlights from the life of the 95-year-old retired pope.
Pope Benedict XVI, elected a philosopher king, was at heart a German professor
By Thomas Reese — December 31, 2022
(RNS) — In 2005, the cardinals thought they were electing the smartest man in the room. They should instead have sought the man who would listen to all the other smart people in the church.
My encounters with Joseph Ratzinger — and Pope Benedict XVI
By Thomas Reese — December 31, 2022
Open discussion was suppressed by Ratzinger under the papacy of John Paul. If you did not agree with the Vatican, you were silenced.
Benedict, the ‘other pope,’ dies at 95, leaving behind a unique and complex legacy
By Claire Giangravé — December 31, 2022
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Benedict XVI, the first pope to resign in 600 years, paved the way into the new millennium, but struggled to reconcile his traditional Catholic views with a world that he considered to be ‘under the dictatorship of relativism.’
Vatican II after 60 years
By Thomas Reese — December 20, 2022
(RNS) — Conservatives, reading Vatican II's documents like biblical fundamentalists, miss what it meant to participants.
Does the pope need an editor?
By Thomas Reese — December 6, 2022
(RNS) — The pope’s recent interview in America magazine comes across as a first draft in need of editing.
Report finds 196 clerics abused minors in German diocese
By Associated Press — June 13, 2022
BERLIN (AP) — 'The bishops and other officials in the diocesan leadership were in some cases extensively in the know,' about the abuse, co-author Thomas Grossboelting said.
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