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Pope Benedict returns to public eye for Mass with former students

ope Benedict XVI emerged briefly from prayerful retreat to celebrate Mass with a group of his former doctoral students.

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Officials dubious of retired pope’s extraordinary ‘mystical experience’

When Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation in February, he made it very clear that he had done so only after intense prayer and that he intended to live the rest of his life praying and studying.

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Pope confirms he’s finishing encyclical begun by Pope Benedict

Pope Francis told members of the ordinary council of the Synod of Bishops that he was preparing to publish an encyclical on faith written “with four hands” — his own and those of Pope Benedict XVI.

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Pope Francis meets retired Pope Benedict, says ‘we’re brothers’

With a warm embrace, a helping hand, shared prayer, a long discussion and lunch together, Pope Francis spent several hours with retired Pope Benedict XVI March 23 at the papal summer villa.

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Pope Francis embraces emeritus Pope Benedict XVI on March 23 at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy. PHOTO: CNS/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters

Timeline of an unlikely Pope, the life of Francis

Pope Francis was elected to succeed Pope Benedict XVI on March 13 by the conclave of cardinals.

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Apostle of true human dignity

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI took those who were interested more deeply into the Gospel of Life, writes Anna Krohn

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Pope Benedict XVI waves as he appears for the last time as Pope at the balcony of his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on February 28. It was his final public appearance before his papacy drew to a close. PHOTO: CNS/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters: reuters

Seminarians reflect on Pope Benedict’s ministry, their own vocations

Doustou and fellow seminarians Rhett Williams and Deacons Scott Holmer and Dustin Dought reflects on the pope’s eight-year pontificate and its effect on their lives as young Catholics in interviews at Theological College of The Catholic University of America in Washington.

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Deacon Dustin Dought, who is studying to be a priest for the Diocese of Lafayette, La., shares a light moment with other seminarians on Feb. 28 at Theological College in Washington. PHOTO: CNS/Bob Roller

Between popes, a time of speculation and suspense

The period immediately following a pontificate is one of excited speculation, more or less loose, about the identity of the next pope.

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Were they always that big? CARTOON: CNS/Lucas Turnbloom

Canonist explains ‘rigid, highly formal’ rules for electing pope

The voting by cardinals to elect the next pope takes place behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, following a highly detailed procedure that underwent major revisions by Blessed John Paul II and a small, but very significant change, by Pope Benedict XVI.

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The Pope and the Philistines

Benedict XVI’s papacy has been one of imagination and urbanity hampered by bureaucracy, writes Tracey Rowland

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