He said Gustavo Gutierrez asked him to hand-deliver the replies he had penned to questions regarding his theology raised by Cardinal Ratzinger, then prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of ...

Twenty-five years ago, Cardinal Pericle Felici, Pro-Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, solemnly announced to the crowd waiting in St Peter's Square: "Habemus Papam". Twenty-five years ago ...

As Ratzinger wrote (Idem, p. 44), "This is a prophecy of the Cross: He shows that the destruction of his earthly body will be at the same time the end of the Temple.

Since the Second Vatican Council, the question has come up more than once. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, didn’t think much of bishops’ conferences, the national or ...

Ratzinger (1927-2022 ... when Pope Paul VI named him archbishop of Munich and Freising and made him a cardinal in 1977. In 1981 Pope John Paul II, now a canonized saint, named him head of the ...