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In a new book-interview, Pope Francis talks about his good relationship with the pope emeritus and sometimes difficult relationship with Benedict's entourage.

COMMMENTARY: Recent papal statements are best understood as a passionate appeal for an end to violence, not a rejection of the long Catholic tradition on war...

Peter Seewald, close friend and collaborator of Pope Benedict XVI, said Thursday that Benedict was “stabbed in the heart” by Pope Francis’ attacks on the traditional Latin Mass.

In the past 100 years, four popes have visited this country blessed by the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima. Pope Francis is scheduled to return in August.

The Arrigoni bakery has made bread for Popes for almost a century, from rosetta rolls to wholewheat loaves -- but mass tourism has proved deadly and no prayers can save it now.

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The Church should not give up in its attempt both to maintain a dialogue with all artists, and to promote a Christian modern art.

On November 21, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI met with artists in the Sistine Chapel, addressing them in an extensive speech.

Pope Benedict XVI's biographer revealed that the late Pontiff for years suffered from insomnia and exhaustion, which ultimately led him to resign from the papacy.

Pope Benedict’s German biographer, Peter Seewald, confirmed that nine weeks before he died, Benedict revealed that insomnia was the “central motive” for his resignation.