Over the course of his nearly 8-year pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI achieved a great deal for the Church and the world. The following is a numerical look at his reign as pope.
During last night’s election coverage, the hosts of the Daily Wire turned to casually discussing the papacy. Jeremy Boreing, Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Andrew Klavan, Michael Knowles and Matt Walsh raised questions about the papacy and the transfer of power in the
From the first glimpses the world had of him from the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica following his election to the papacy on August 28, 1978, Pope John Paul I charmed the world. He had a contagious smile, was refreshingly plainspoken,
Pope Francis' plans to visit the central Italian city of L'Aquila and its basilica Aug. 28 fueled speculation of a possible announcement of his resignation, which he has firmly denied.
L'Aquila's basilica is the burial place of St. Celestine V, who issued a
Pope Francis said the goals he has achieved in more than nine years as pope were simply the fruit of the ideas discussed by the College of Cardinals prior to his election.
In an interview with Argentine news agency Telam published July 1,
Over the course of his nine-plus years as pontiff, Pope Francis has strongly and consistently spoken about the sin of gossip. It is “an act of terrorism, akin to dropping a bomb,” he said in a 2015 homily. It “closes off the
Managing editor Scott Warden reflects on why the Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter on February 22. The Church does not possess an actual chair used by the first pope. Instead, the feast celebrates the authority Christ himself
Although it took obvious effort to pronounce each word and sometimes his secretary repeated what he said to make it clear, retired Pope Benedict XVI spoke to an Italian newspaper about his retirement and about Pope Francis' planned trip to Iraq.
The retired
Writer Joe Heschmeyer explores the Church’s doctrine of papal infallibility and how it relates to the recent criticisms of the canonization of Pope John Paul II. Heschmeyer writes: “How can Catholic belief in infallibility survive Pope John Paul II’s terrible misjudgments about
Before the First Vatican Council and Pope Pius IX formally defined the doctrine of papal infallibility, the idea of papal infallibility had been widely accepted in the Church for centuries. Those holding it included theological giants like St. Thomas Aquinas in the