In a newly published book interview, Pope Francis reflects on Pope Benedict XVI’s historic decision to resign, describing their deep relationship and occasional disagreements.
Pope Benedict XVI
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Joe Biden and Donald Trump need to take a page from Pope Benedict (and retire)
What our aging politicians can learn from Pope Benedict XVI’s historic resignation
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The professor pope: Reflecting on Pope Benedict’s love of young people and education
Nearly everything Pope Benedict ever wrote or said in public was visibly animated by a concern to encourage—and to answer—the honest existential questions that young people are brave enough to raise.
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Benedict XVI’s secretary has been sent away from the Vatican, but his future is unclear
Speculation surrounding the return to Germany of Georg Gänswein is continuing unabated, not least because his status remains unclear now that he has been sent away from the Vatican.
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Pope Benedict XVI’s cousins stand to inherit his money. None of them want it.
One cousin has already refused to accept the inheritance; four others have not yet responded. If they are smart, they will turn it down as well.
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Pope Francis tells Benedict XVI’s controversial private secretary he must leave the Vatican by July 1
According to many in the Vatican, Archbishop Gänswein’s tell-all book published shortly after Benedict’s death revealed a lack of trustworthiness, loyalty and reserve on the part of a man who was meant to be serving two popes.
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Pope Benedict XVI’s Holy Saturday reflections on Nietzsche and the death of God
In Holy Saturday meditations, the late pope engaged postmodern thought in exploring the thorniest of church beliefs.
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Do Catholics care about climate change?
A recent Pew survey found that overall Catholics show a higher degree of worry about the impact of climate change than other Christian denominations, but the issue appears to divide U.S. Catholics along the same political and racial lines as within the wider public.
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Benedict XVI and Nietzsche: A pope’s unlikely dialogue with an atheist philosopher
One of the more remarkable things in a pontificate full of surprises is the fact that Pope Benedict XVI’s major writings involved a significant engagement with the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Pope Benedict XVI on the relationship between Christianity and politics
Pope Benedict never ceased to argue that democracy must be judged by truth, a criterion it cannot measure but can only be measured by.