VATICAN CITY—Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany ... "Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me—a simple, humble worker in the vineyard ...

Source: The Associated Press After days of pomp and pageantry, ancient rituals and high-tech innovation, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany is elected to succeed Pope John Paul II. The 115 ...

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, was one of the most powerful men in the Vatican under Pope John Paul II, a strict enforcer of church doctrine who earned the nickname "Cardinal No." As dean ...

Pope John Paul II was buried in the crypt of St ... the dean of their college and close confidant of the pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, in celebrating the mass. The funeral commences nine ...

The world didn’t always agree with Pope John Paul II, but it always seemed to love ... held court with presidents and rock stars, Cardinal Ratzinger was minding the store in Rome, jousting ...

"Follow me" – this lapidary saying of Christ can be taken as the key to understanding the message which comes to us from the life of our late beloved Pope John Paul II. Today we bury his remains ...

Before his became pope, John Paul II — then Cardinal Wojtyla — preached a famous sermon on this text. Cardinal Ratzinger then gives the homily. This is not a eulogy, but a reflection on the ...

“A VERY rare photograph of John Paul II with two men who would succeed him as Pope, Cardinal Ratzinger, who became Benedict XVI, and Cardinal Bergoglio," reads the post's caption. "What a ...

After a swift decline in his health over the past several days, Pope John Paul II died in his apartment ... Among possible successors are German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — one of the pope's ...

Pope John Paul II with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger during his papal inauguration Oct. 22, 1978, in Vatican City.The pope emeritus wrote a letter to the Polish bishops for the centennial of the birth ...