Pope Francis sits by the coffin of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI St. Peter's Square during a funeral mass at the Vatican, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday. He was 95. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File) ...

Pope Benedict XVI, the bookish conservative pillar of the Roman Catholic Church who ended his turbulent tenure in 2013 by becoming the first pontiff to retire in six centuries, died at 9:34 a.m ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI dies at 95 03:14. Pope Francis has praised Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI 's "kindness" in his first public comments since the death of the retired pontiff.

Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd gathered in St Mark's Square while crossing the square on an electric car on May 7, 2011 in Venice, Italy. Marco Secchi / Getty Images file.

Pope Benedict XVI, who died on Dec. 31 at the age of 95, spent less than eight years as the head of the Catholic Church. But he still managed to leave a complex legacy on the 2,000-year-old ...

The invitation from Prime Minister Gordon Brown for Pope Benedict XVI to make a state visit to the UK in 2010 sparked significant controversy. The visit took place amid widespread discontent with ...

Then Pope Benedict XVI and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin spoke at the Vatican in 2007. AP. Benedict XVI died at 9:34 AM local time in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in Vatican City.

Pope Benedict XVI, the first pontiff to resign in nearly 600 years, will step down today to lead a secluded life of prayer, far from the grueling demands of the papacy and the scandals that have ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the shy German theologian who tried to reawaken Christianity in a secularized Europe but will forever be remembered as the first pontiff in 600 years to resign from the ...

Pope Benedict XVI dies; a look at his life. The former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had never wanted to be pope, planning at age 78 to spend his final years writing in the “peace and quiet” of ...