Archbishop Georg Gaenswein’s Nothing But The Truth: My Life Beside Pope Benedict XVI is being published this month by the Piemme imprint of Italian publisher Mondadori.

By mid-morning the queue to enter the basilica snaked around St Peter’s Square

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s last words were “Lord, I love you,” his long-time secretary said, quoting a nurse who helped care for the 95-year-old former pontiff in his final hours.

Within minutes of the announcement of the death of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday morning, a wealth of tributes poured in from around the world, while the Vatican revealed that the late pontiff would be given a “simple” funeral, celebrated ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the first pontiff in 600 years to resign from the job, has died at the age of 95.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died. Here are highlights from his life.April 16, 1927: Born Joseph Alois Ratzinger in Marktl am Inn, Germany, youngest of three children to Joseph and Maria Ratzinger.1943-1945: ...

Benedict, the former cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, headed the archdiocese from 1977 to 1982

Retired Pope Benedict XVI has acknowledged that he did attend a 1980 meeting at which the transfer of a paedophile priest to his then-diocese was discussed, saying an editorial error was responsible for his previous assertion that he was not there.

The report also faulted the current archbishop, a prominent ally of Pope Francis, in two cases

Retired Pope Benedict XVI has said he hopes to soon join a beloved professor friend in “the afterlife”, in a sign that the 94-year-old pontiff is not only accepting his eventual death but welcoming it.

Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has fallen ill after returning to Italy from a trip to his native Bavaria to visit his brother, who died a month ago, a German newspaper has reported.