Pope Benedict XVI

The Vatican said on Friday that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI had rested well and that his condition was “stationary.”

At the end of his general audience on Dec. 30, the Holy See Press Office said: “Last night the Pope Emeritus was able to rest well. At present his condition is stationary.”

On Wednesday, Pope Francis revealed that his 95-year-old predecessor was “very ill” and he went to see him in his home in the Vatican Gardens.

“Last night the Pope Emeritus was able to rest well,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement. “He also participated in the celebration of Holy Mass in his room yesterday afternoon. In 2013, Benedict became the first pope in 600 years to resign, and he chose to live out his retirement in seclusion in a converted monastery in the Vatican.

The Vatican announcement comes two days after Pope Francis said that his predecessor was "very ill"

After resigning as head of the Catholic Church, Benedict retired to a former convent within the Vatican grounds. Pope Benedict resigned in 2013 becoming the first Pope since the Middle Ages to do so. Former Pope Benedict XVI's condition remains stable announced the Vatican this Friday.

The condition of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI remains stable, the Vatican said Friday, as Catholics prayed for the 95-year-old former pontiff whose health has ...

Oswald in Marktl am Inn, where the former pope was baptized, a photo of Benedict was set up on a tripod next to a baptistery. "He was a great pope," Italian Carmelo Dellisanti told AFP. In his homily, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis said as "priest, theologian, bishop, pope," Benedict "expressed at the same time, the strength and the sweetness of faith." "I don't feel any great sadness or astonishment, but rather gratitude," he said, despite a few tears filling his eyes. Photos from his 2006 trip to the town line the walls. The Rome diocese celebrated a special mass for Benedict at the Basilica of St.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is lucid, alert and stable but his condition remains serious, the Vatican said on Thursday (local time), a day after it revealed ...

"I believe that he is very calmly looking forward to this encounter." Few had expected his retirement - now in its 10th year - to last longer than his eight-year reign as pope. Yesterday Francis revealed that Benedict was "very ill" and went to see Benedict at his home in the Vatican where he has lived since retiring in 2013, sparking fears that he was near death.

In his homily pronounced on Friday evening in St John's Basilica in the Lateran, the Cardinal Vicar General for the Diocese of Rome expresses the ...

We can only attempt to grasp the idea that such a moment is life in the full sense, a plunging ever anew into the vastness of being, in which we are simply overwhelmed with joy”. With his “tenderness, goodness, humility, meekness, in deep communion with Pope Francis, the Pope Emeritus is a sign of the beautiful face of the Church which reflects the light of Christ's face”, Cardinal De Donatis stressed. Trying to prepare myself for that moment and above all always keeping it in mind. The definitive love that can truly become this ‘second wine’ is more wonderful still, it is better than the first wine”. “We like to think – he said - that our Bishop Emeritus is now held by the hand of St. The first wine is very fine: this is falling in love.

The Vatican provided a new medical bulletin Friday afternoon saying Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI had been able to rest well for a second night.

On Friday evening, the cardinal vicar of Rome, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, celebrated a special Mass for Benedict in St. John Paul II, which was moved upstairs into the main basilica in recent years. Benedict, who for decades as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger served the Vatican as its doctrinal guardian, chose to live out his retirement in seclusion in a converted monastery on Vatican City grounds. The monumental basilica was Benedict’s cathedral in his capacity as bishop of Rome when serving as pontiff. His resignation paved the way for Francis’ election. Francis called for prayers for Benedict, resulting in an outpouring of messages of solidarity from rank-and-file Catholics and cardinals alike.

Born April 16, 1927, in Germany's Bavaria, Joseph Ratzinger was a theologian by training. Following the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005, Ratzinger was ...

O'Connell of America magazine said that in Benedict's final remarks to the cardinals before leaving the Vatican, he said his successor was among them. The [pope emeritus acknowledged](https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1079655013/pope-benedict-xvi-apologizes-for-handling-of-sexual-abuse-cases-but-denies-wrong) abuses and errors had taken place when he was Munich archbishop. "Benedict XVI's decision to resign was a very radical interpretation of Vatican II," Faggioli said. The pope added that he learned to be more attentive to the Internet for information. "Because to be pope you are not the theologian-in-chief, you are the pastor-in-chief. He was During that time, one of his most controversial documents was " [Dominus Jesus](http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000806_dominus-iesus_en.html)," which emphasized the primacy of the Catholic Church and branded non-Christian religions as "gravely deficient" — potentially undermining Vatican II achievements toward dialogue between Catholicism and other denominations and religions. In a 1986 document, he called homosexuality an "objective disorder and an Ratzinger was ordained a priest in 1951 and began his career teaching theology. In 1943, he was drafted into the military and served briefly in an anti-aircraft battalion. [interview book](https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/last-testament-9781472944672/)," O'Connell said, referring to Last Testament: In His Own Words. Ratzinger entered a seminary when he was 12.

Benedict, who has died at his Vatican residence, became the first pope to resign for 600 years in 2013.

Like the rest of the Church we will always remember him," Annamaria told the BBC. This situation is unprecedented; there are no protocols to follow for what will happen now. In a statement he said: "I remember with particular affection the remarkable Papal Visit to these lands in 2010. What will happen now? "We came here to pray. The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, said Pope Benedict was "one of the great theologians of the 20th century".

Former Pope Benedict, died on December 31, 2022 aged 95 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican where he had lived since his resignation, ...

Conservatives alarmed by Francis’ progressive moves looked to Benedict as the guardian of tradition. Further information will be provided as soon as possible,” the spokesman said in a written statement. Benedict repeatedly apologised for the Church’s failure to root out sexual abuse of children by clergy, and although he was the first pope to take serious action against abuse, the efforts failed to halt a rapid decline in church attendance in the West, especially in Europe. Pope Francis will preside over the funeral for former Pope Benedict XVI, who has died at the age of 95, on January 5, the Vatican said on December 31, 2022. Conservatives in the Church have looked to the former pope as their standard bearer and some ultra-traditionalists even refused to acknowledge Francis as a legitimate pontiff. Former Pope Benedict, died on December 31, 2022 aged 95 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican where he had lived since his resignation, a spokesman for the Holy See said.

Benedict XVI passed away on Saturday at 9:34 AM in his residence, the official Vatican News agency said on Twitter.

Betrayed by his own butler, Benedict was forced to deal with the 2012 revelation of suspected dishonesty and political in-fighting in what became known as the Vatileaks scandal. In one of those cases, the report found, the future pope knowingly opened his archdiocese to a priest who had been convicted of sexual abuse in a criminal court. His comments on the Prophet Mohammed in a 2006 lecture sparked condemnation in Muslim countries, forcing Benedict to make several apologies. In 2010, Benedict said condom use could be justified in “single cases,” for example by sex workers, as a necessary “humanization of sexuality.” Unsurprisingly, Benedict maintained the church’s orthodoxy on homosexuality, marriage for priests and an expanded role for women in the church. Yet he did review the church’s stance on contraception and sexually transmitted diseases, adopting a more practical attitude. [church](/topic/church) in 2013, saying that he no longer had the “strength of mind and body” to fulfill his duties. As a German cardinal then known as Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict XVI was elected as pope in 2005 following the death of John Paul II. He was drafted into the German army and later deserted at 16. There were allegations of sexual violence by Catholic clergy in Australia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Poland the US and elsewhere. 28, 2013, Benedict became the first pontiff to step down since Gregory XII in 1415. Succeeding such a charismatic, revered pope — John Paul II was swiftly put on the path to sainthood — wasn’t going to be easy even under normal circumstances.

A statement from Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni on Saturday morning said that: "With pain I inform that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died today at 9:34 in the ...

His brother Georg was a frequent visitor to the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo until he died in 2020. [Monsignor Georg Gaenswein](/topic/monsignor-georg-gaenswein), his longtime private secretary who was always by his side, another secretary and consecrated women who tended to the papal apartment. He deserted the German army in April 1945, the waning days of the war. He was the oldest pope elected in 275 years and the first German in nearly 1,000 years. Benedict then largely kept to his word that he would live a life of prayer in retirement, emerging only occasionally from his converted monastery for special events and writing occasional book prefaces and messages. And they harshly criticized Benedict when he removed the excommunication of a traditionalist British bishop who had denied the Holocaust. For them, Benedict remained even in retirement a beacon of nostalgia for the orthodoxy and Latin Mass of their youth - and the pope they much preferred over Francis. In October 2012, Benedict's former butler, Paolo Gabriele, was convicted of aggravated theft after Vatican police found a huge stash of papal documents in his apartment. Like his predecessor John Paul, Benedict made reaching out to Jews a hallmark of his papacy. Instead, he was forced to follow the footsteps of the beloved St. No globe-trotting media darling or populist, Benedict was a teacher, theologian and academic to the core: quiet and pensive with a fierce mind. It was a path that in many ways was reversed by his successor, Francis, whose mercy-over-morals priorities alienated the traditionalists who had been so indulged by Benedict.

Former Pope Benedict XVI passed away at 9:34 am on Saturday at the age of 95 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican.

Former Pope Benedict XVI dies in Vatican at 95 Benedict XVI Death: पूर्व पोप बेनेडिक्ट 16वें का निधन, 95 वर्ष की उम्र ...

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Pope Benedict Death: हाल के दिनों में पोप बेनेडिक्ट XVI वेटिकन गार्डन में एक छोटे से मठ, ...

[नरेंद्र मोदी](https://www.abplive.com/topic/narendra-modi) ने भी दुख पूर्व पोप बेनेडिक्ट के निधन पर शोक व्यक्त किया है. पोप बेनेडिक्ट XVI का असली नाम योसेफ़ आलोयज़ियुस रात्सिंगर था. वो 600 साल के इतिहास में पहली बार किसी कारणवश पद को छोड़ा. पूर्व पोप बेनेडिक्ट XVI ने कल आराम भी किया था और दोपहर में खीस्तयाग समारोह में भाग लिया था. हाल के दिनों में वो वेटिकन गार्डन में एक छोटे से मठ, मेटर एक्लेसिया में रहने लगे थे. Pope Benedict Death: वेटिकन सिटी के पूर्व पोप बेनेडिक्ट XVI पिछले दो दिन से बीमार चल रहें थें, लेकिन आज शनिवार (31 दिसंबर) स्थानीय समय अनुसार 9:30 बजे सुबह को मौत हो गई है.

The Pope Benedict XVI Passed Away:విషాదంలో కాథలిక్కులు.. 95 ఏళ్ల వయసులో మాజీ పోప్ బెనెడిక్ట్ కన్నుమూత ...

ఇక ప్రస్తుత పోప్ ఫ్రాన్సిస్ బుధవారం తన అనుచరులందరినీ మాజీ పోప్ కోసం ప్రార్థించమని విజ్ఞప్తి చేశారు. పోప్ ఎమెరిటస్, బెనెడిక్ట్ XVI ఈరోజు ఉదయం 9:34 గంటలకు వాటికన్లోని మేటర్ ఎక్లేసియా మొనాస్టరీలో తుదిశ్వాస విడిచారని బాధతో తెలియజేస్తున్నానని వాటికన్ ప్రతినిధి ఒక ప్రకటనలో తెలిపారు. ఇక మాజీ పోప్ బెనెడిక్ట్ 600 సంవత్సరాలలో ఎప్పుడూ లేని విధంగా తొలిసారిగా 2013లో పదవీ విరమణ చేశారు. ఇక మాజీ పోప్ తన వారసుడు పోప్ ఫ్రాన్సిస్తో మంచి సంబంధాన్ని కలిగి ఉన్నాడు. మాజీ పోప్ ఎమెరిటస్ గత కొంత కాలంగా అనారోగ్యంతో ఉన్నారు . The Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Passed Away: గత కొన్ని రోజులుగా అనారోగ్యంతో బాధపడుతున్న మాజీ పోప్ ఎమిరిటస్ బెనెడిక్ట్ XVI ఈరోజు కన్ను మూశారు. ఆయన 2005 నుండి 2013 వరకు అపోస్టోలిక్ సీగా ఉన్నాడు. ఆయన రాజీనామా చేసినప్పటి నుండి అక్కడే నివసిస్తున్నారు. Also Read: ఇక పోప్ బెనెడిక్ట్ వాటికన్లోని మేటర్ ఎక్లేసియా మొనాస్టరీలో మరణించారు. ఆయన తరువాత పోప్ ఫ్రాన్సిస్ బాధ్యతలు తీసుకున్నారు. కాథలిక్ క్రైస్తవులు అందరూ తమ చీఫ్ గా పోప్ ను భావిస్తారు.

Pope Benedict Death: वेटिकन सिटी (Vatican City) में पूर्व पोप बेनेडिक्ट XVI (Former Pope Benedict) की शनिवार (31 ...

మాజీ పోప్ బెనెడిక్ట్ కన్నుమూశారు. వృద్ధాప్యం, పలు అనారోగ్య సమస్యలతో చికిత్స ...

పోప్ బెనెడిక్ట్ XVI 2013లో పోప్ పదవికి రాజీనామా చేసి కేథలిక్ క్రైస్తవులను దిగ్భ్రాంతికి గురి చేశారు. ఆరోగ్యం క్షీణించడంతో పోప్ పదవికి రాజీనామా చేస్తున్నట్లు అప్పట్లో బెనెడిక్ట్ ప్రకటించాడు. బెనెడిక్ట్ 9 సంవత్సరాల క్రితం అత్యున్నత పోప్ పదవికి రాజీనామా చేశారు. అయితే, ఈ సంవత్సరం ప్రారంభంలో మాజీ పోప్ 1977 నుంచి 1982 వరకు మ్యూనిచ్ ఆర్చ్ బిషప్గా ఉన్నప్పుడు పలు తప్పులు జరిగాయని అంగీకరించడం చర్చనీయాంశమైంది. పోప్ ఫ్రాన్సిస్ బుధవారం వాటికన్లో ప్రసంగించి.. 2005లో పోప్ పదవికి ఎంపికయ్యారు.

Benedict XVI was the first pope to confront the scourge of clerical sex abuse in the Catholic church, but only after a career in which he himself was ...

"I have had great responsibilities in the Catholic Church. to describe the pain and harm" inflicted on them. He was also the first pope to dedicate an entire document to the crisis -- his pastoral letter to Ireland in 2010, in which he said he shared victims' "dismay and sense of betrayal". The founder of the conservative Legion of Christ was ordered to renounce his public ministry for a life of "prayer and penitence" in what Benedict's supporters hailed as a landmark moment. The German Joseph Ratzinger, who died on Saturday aged 95, was the first pope to meet with victims of abuse and defrocked almost 400 priests in the last two years of his pontificate. Benedict XVI was the first pope to confront the scourge of clerical sex abuse in the Catholic church, but only after a career in which he himself was accused of covering it up.

Benedict XVI Death: पोप फ्रांसिस ने कहा कि वह अक्सर उनसे मिलने जाया करते थे। वेटिकन ने एक बयान ...

Former Pope Benedict died on Saturday in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican.

His “papal family” consisted of Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, his longtime private secretary who was always by his side, another secretary and consecrated women who tended to the papal apartment. He was the oldest pope elected in 275 years and the first German in nearly 1,000 years. He deserted the German army in April 1945, the waning days of the war. Benedict then largely kept to his word that he would live a life of prayer in retirement, emerging only occasionally from his converted monastery for special events and writing occasional book prefaces and messages. And they harshly criticized Benedict when he removed the excommunication of a traditionalist British bishop who had denied the Holocaust. The Vatican under Benedict suffered notorious PR gaffes, and sometimes Benedict himself was to blame. For them, Benedict remained even in retirement a beacon of nostalgia for the orthodoxy and Latin Mass of their youth — and the pope they much preferred over Francis. Like his predecessor John Paul, Benedict made reaching out to Jews a hallmark of his papacy. No globe-trotting media darling or populist, Benedict was a teacher, theologian and academic to the core: quiet and pensive with a fierce mind. Instead, he was forced to follow the footsteps of the beloved St. It was a path that in many ways was reversed by his successor, Francis, whose mercy-over-morals priorities alienated the traditionalists who had been so indulged by Benedict. His dramatic decision paved the way for the conclave that elected Pope Francis as his successor.

प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने पोप एमेरिटस बेनेडिक्ट 16वें के निधन पर शनिवार को शोक ...

वेटिकन प्रवक्ता मैत्तियो ब्रुनी द्वारा शनिवार सुबह जारी एक बयान में कहा गया, ‘‘बड़े दुख के साथ सूचित करना पड़ रहा है कि पोप एमेरिटस बेनेडिक्ट 16वें का वेटिकन में आज निधन हो गया. जर्मनी से ताल्लुक रखने वाले बेनेडिक्ट एक ऐसे धर्मगुरु के रूप में याद रखे जाएंगे, जो पोप के पद से इस्तीफा देने वाले 600 वर्षों में प्रथम ईसाई धर्मगुरु थे. धर्मनिरपेक्ष यूरोप में ईसाई धर्म के पुनर्जागरण की कोशिश करने वाले पोप एमेरिटस बेनेडिक्ट 16वें का शनिवार को निधन हो गया.