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The pope reportedly said that Cardinal Raymond Burke was a source of “disunity” in the Church.

The longtime personal secretary of Pope Benedict XVI has been given no permanent position in his home archdiocese but is living in the local seminary.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Retired Pope Benedict XVI, who had an impressive record as a teacher and defender of the basics of Catholic faith, is likely to go down in history books as the first pope in almost 600 years to resign. He died Dec. 31 at the age of 95, nearly 10 years after leaving the papacy to retire to what he said would be a life of prayer and study. Pope Francis was scheduled to celebrate his predecessors funeral Jan. 5 in St. Peters Square. Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican pr

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Retired Pope Benedict XVI, who had an impressive record as a teacher and defender of the basics of Catholic faith, is likely to go down in history books as the first pope in almost 600 years to resign. He died Dec. 31 at the age of 95, nearly 10 years after leaving the papacy to retire to what he said would be a life of prayer and study. Pope Francis was scheduled to celebrate his predecessors funeral Jan. 5 in St. Peters Square. Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican pr

The consecrated women who cared for Pope Benedict XVI in his retirement gently stroked his hands before his body was carried on a red-covered stretcher to a van for its last journey to St. Peter's Basilica.

Archbishop Georg Ganswein, the longtime personal secretary to Pope Benedict XVI, says that the restrictions placed on the traditional Latin Mass by Pope Francis “hit him pretty hard.

Retired Pope Benedict XVI passed away Dec. 31 at 9:34 a.m. in his residence at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican Gardens. Pope Francis is scheduled to preside over the funeral Mass Jan. 5 in St. Peter's Square.

Retired Pope Benedict XVI, who had an impressive record as a teacher and defender of the basics of Catholic faith, died Dec. 31 at the age of 95, nearly 10 years after leaving the papacy to live a life of prayer and study.

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Retired Pope Benedict XVI, who had an impressive record as a teacher and defender of the basics of Catholic faith, is likely to go down in history books as the first pope in almost 600 years to resign.