In the case of Pope Benedict XVI, ... The Pope’s cross By . Post Staff Report. Published Feb. 12, ... We suspect many of the faithful may find a papal abdication more unsettling than a papal death.

A cross bequeathed by the late Pope Benedict XVI to a parish in his German home region of Bavaria has been stolen from the church where it was exhibited, police said June 20.

Pope Benedict XVI bequeathed the cross to St. Oswald’s after his retirement in 2013. Benedict celebrated his first Mass as a newly ordained priest at St. Oswald’s in 1951. A Service of EWTN ...

Benedict, who turns 85 on April 16, didn't carry the cross during the hour-long procession itself. Instead, he listened intently to meditations on suffering that he asked an elderly Italian couple ...

Several months after the theft of a pectoral cross bequeathed by the late Pope Benedict XVI to a parish in his native Bavaria, police have apprehended the suspect in the Czech Republic.. The cross ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI dies at 95 03:14 Rome — Benedict XVI, the pope who shocked the world by stepping down from the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church in 2013, has died at the age of 95.

Pope Francis rests a hand on the coffin of his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, during a funeral Mass on Thursday in St. Peter’s Square.

Pope Benedict XVI, who died on Dec. 31 at the age of 95, ... He announced that he would retire from office, in the first papal abdication since Gregory XII in 1415. At 85, ...

Benedict was the longest-living pope, having surpa ssed Pope Leo XIII in September 2020. “With sorrow I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 in the Mater ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the first man in nearly 600 years to resign from the papacy, died at 95. He was a traditionalist, but also adopted Twitter.

Benedict died on Dec. 31, nearly a decade after becoming the first pope in six centuries to resign. The missing cross is one of several of its kind, Munich archdiocese spokesman Christoph Kappes said.

Pope Benedict XVI bequeathed a pectoral cross to St. Oswald’s Church in the city of Traunstein in Bavaria after his retirement in 2013. The cross was stolen June 19, 2023, from the church.