VATICAN CITY Pope Benedict XVI will be known as "pope emeritus" in his retirement and will continue to wear a white cassock, the Vatican announced Tuesday, again fueling concerns about potential ...

During Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the U.S., the first since his election three years ago, Catholics will listen intently to what he says, and how he says it, all in hopes of figuring out if ...

ROME -- With all the pundits analyzing Pope Benedict XVI's views of U.S. foreign policy and the woes of the Catholic Church, we know there are those of you out there with a simple plea: Can ...

Pope Benedict XVI's garment may be displaying less about his fashion sense and more ... On Good Friday he donned a "fiddleback" vestment dating to the Counter-Reformation era of the 16th ...

Pope Benedict XVI and some 250 assisting bishops will wear red-silk vestments designed in Connecticut and stitched together in Holland during Thursday's Mass at Nationals Park.

Francis, wearing the crimson vestments typical of papal funerals, ... Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who will forever be remembered as the first pontiff in 600 years to resign from the job, ...

Thousands filed past the body of Benedict XVI on Monday as the pope emeritus, who died Saturday at age 95, lay in state at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. He will be buried by his successor ...

Former Pope Benedict XVI was buried at the Vatican Thursday after his funeral, bringing an end to an unprecedented decade in which a reigning pope lived side by side with his predecessor.

VATICAN CITY — With bells tolling, tens of thousands of faithful, political leaders and the pope himself mourned Benedict XVI, the German theologian who made history by resigning the papacy, at ...

Pope Francis, wearing the crimson vestments typical of papal funerals, ... Members of the church wait for the funeral mass for late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Pope Francis (center) sat by the coffin of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI St. Peter's Square during a funeral mass at the Vatican, Thursday. Alessandra Tarantino/Associated Press ...

On a rainy Christmas Eve, Pope Benedict XVI followed a procession of Swiss Guards, bishops and priests down the central nave of St. Peter's Basilica to celebrate midnight Mass before dignitaries ...