By Hannah Brockhaus Rome, Italy, Mar 30, 2023 / 04:47 am Pope Francis will continue to receive treatment after being hospitalized for a respiratory infection on Wednesday, a Vatican spokesman said Thursday. “His Holiness Pope Francis rested well overnight. The clinical picture is progressively improving and he is continuing his planned …

By Hannah Brockhaus Rome Newsroom, Mar 29, 2023 / 08:57 am Pope Francis has been undergoing some medical checkups at one of Rome’s most prominent hospitals since Wednesday afternoon, according to a Vatican spokesman. Holy See Press Office Director Matteo Bruni issued a brief statement the afternoon of March 29 to …

by Hannah Brockhaus Rome Newsroom, Jan 28, 2023 / 05:00 am Pope Francis has written a letter to clarify his comments on sin and homosexuality from a recent interview with the Associated Press. “When I said it is a sin, I was simply referring to Catholic moral teaching, which says …

by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jan 21, 2023 / 12:00 pm Pope Benedict XVI was misunderstood throughout his life and ministry, Cardinal Mario Grech wrote in an essay this week in the Vatican newspaper. Writing in the Jan. 17 Italian edition of L’Osservatore Romano, Grech said Benedict XVI “often remained …

By Hannah Brockhaus, Courtney Mares Vatican City, Jan 5, 2023 / 04:50 am Tens of thousands of people were present in St. Peter’s Square for the funeral Thursday of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, a leading theologian of the 20th century and the first pope to resign from office in nearly 600 years. …

By Hannah Brockhaus Rome, Italy, Jan 3, 2023 / 07:45 am The personnel of Cantina Tirolese in Rome will pay their final respects to Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 4. The Austrian eatery was, “without a doubt, his favorite restaurant,” its manager told CNA on Tuesday. Though the …

By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jan 2, 2023 / 13:00 pm In the first hours after his election on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis thought of his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Moments after making his first public appearance as pope, from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, Francis said: “First …

By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jan 2, 2023 / 11:00 am Approximately 40,000 people visited Benedict XVI in the first five hours he was lying in state on Monday, according to the Vatican gendarmes. Catholics have traveled to the Vatican from both near and far to see the late pope for …

By Hannah Brockhaus Rome Newsroom, Jan 1, 2023 / 05:28 am The Vatican on Sunday shared the first photos of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI since his death on Dec. 31. Benedict’s mortal remains have been laid in the chapel of the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, the pope emeritus’ home after his resignation, …

By Courtney Mares Rome Newsroom, Dec 31, 2022 / 13:54 pm The Vatican published Benedict XVI’s spiritual testament on Saturday night in which the late pope underlined “the reasonableness of faith.” “What I said before to my countrymen, I say now to all those in the Church who have been entrusted …