Vatican City — Pope Francis prayed for his predecessor's passage to heaven and again expressed thanks for a lifetime of service to the church, during New Year's Day appearances a day after Pope ...

Pope Francis rang in 2023 with prayers for his late predecessor at a special New Year’s Day mass. Francis delivered the invocation during his homily at St. Peter’s Basilica, where Pope ...

Pope Francis mourned and gave thanks to his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, hours after his death on Saturday. “My thought goes to dear Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI who left us this morning ...

Pope Francis prayed for his predecessor’s passage to heaven and again expressed thanks for a lifetime of service to the church, during New Year’s Day appearances a day after Pope Emeritus ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis praised Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s “acute and gentle thought” as he presided over a packed Wednesday general audience in the Vatican, while thousands of ...

In his address, he quoted Benedict XVI: “The Church … grows by ‘attraction.’” Pope Francis stops to pray before an image of Our Lady and the Child Jesus during his weekly general ...

Pope Francis’ short speech honored the former pontiff, whose life’s work was meditating on the life of Jesus, and who faced many challenges before retiring in 2013. Send any friend a story As ...

On the Solemnity of the Epiphany, Pope Francis said that if the Magi had remained comfortable, they never would have encountered the Lord in Bethlehem. In his homily for the Church’s celebration ...

Pope Francis, in first public comments since death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, praises his kindness, faith VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis, in first public comments since death of Pope Emeritus ...

Pope Francis presided over the funeral of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, sitting in a wheelchair ... [+] on the altar. More than 135,000 people had arrived in the Vatican to pay tribute to Pope ...

with Pope Francis leading a "simple" ceremony for Benedict XVI, who died Saturday. Benedict, the first pontiff to resign since the Middle Ages, had renounced the papal throne -- but lived within ...

Pope Francis has praised Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's "kindness" in his first public comments since the death of the retired pontiff. Francis thanked Benedict on Saturday for "his testimony of ...