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Pope Francis greets retired Pope Benedict XVI during a June 28 ceremony at the Vatican marking the 65th anniversary of the retired pope's priestly ordination. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, handout)
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
"Practical governance was not my forte and this certainly was a weakness."
Pope Francis greets retired Pope Benedict XVI during a June 28 ceremony at the Vatican marking the 65th anniversary of the retired pope's priestly ordination. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)
Faith
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
The retired pope has given another interview to the journalist and author Peter Seewald.
People in Paris form a human solidarity chain Nov. 15 near the site of the attack at the Bataclan concert hall (CNS photo/Pascal Rossignol, Reuters).
FaithIn All Things
Thomas Rosica, C.S.B.

Editors Note, Feb. 25, 2019: America has become aware that this article included extensive unattributed material from other sources. Accordingly, we have removed the text.

Politics & SocietyNews
David Gibson - Religion News Service
Eight years ago this Friday Sept 12 Pope Benedict XVI delivered a lecture at the University of Regensburg in Bavaria in which he seemed to diagnose Islam as a religion inherently flawed by fanaticism It was an undiplomatic assertion to say the least.
FaithFaith and Reason
Joseph Ratzinger
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger responds to a 2001 America article by Cardinal Walter Kasper on the relationship between the universal church and local churches.
FaithWashington Front
John Carr
For secular Washington, Benedict was the pope of no. For those who listened, Benedict is more the pope of and, connecting charity and truth, faith and reason.