Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

ROME — With interest in a papal elections high thanks to the Oscar-nominated film “Conclave, ” Pope Francis threw a wrench ...

His retirement this week at age 80 marks the end of a long ecclesial service closely associated with Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict ... abuse of seminarians and young monks over decades.

Pope Francis has cancelled Sunday's Angelus prayer, after spending a restful first night in hospital in Rome, the Vatican ...

When I was young and arrogant ... When I interviewed Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger for my book Inside the Vatican, I asked him if he ever worried that he, like many of his predecessors at the ...

But under Pope John Paul II and his doctrine watchdog, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict ... Francisco Bosch, a young Argentine theologian who has been accompanying the Latin American ...

The announcement came hours before the Vatican reported that the 88-year-old Argentine pope, who lost part of one lung to a respiratory infection as a young man, was suffering from another bout of ...

The story of Christianity began some two thousand years ago when a young woman of Galilee ... because as such she is the concrete and complete example. As Joseph Ratzinger once wrote, what is ...