ROME (AP) — Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him and other members of his ...

Pope Francis has transformed the church from an institution in which a few called the shots to a church of the people of God.

The Pope appealed to St. Benedict for help "to hold firm Christ's central position in our lives. May he always be first in our thoughts and in all our activities!" Before concluding, Benedict XVI ...

Pope Benedict XVI officially stepped down as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, citing a "lack of strength of mind and body ...

Pope Benedict XVI reinstated Father Williamson in January ... German prosecutors convicted him of Holocaust denial, a crime in Germany, and fined him. In October 2012, he was expelled from the ...

Such questions would have been unheard of prior to 2013, when Pope Benedict XVI resigned, becoming the first papal resignation in over 600 years. Francis revealed during the 2022 interview that he ...

Benedict also visits the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. November 28, 2006 – Arrives in Turkey for his first visit as pope. May 9, 2007 – Arrives in Brazil for a six-day visit ...