Diane Montagna interviews an Italian priest and academic who knew Pope Benedict

A final farewell to Cardinal Pell, from friend and foe alike

Ahead of Pope Benedict’s solemn funeral on Thursday, 5 January, the Catholic Herald discussed these and other questions with Father Roberto Regoli, an Italian priest and Professor of Contemporary History at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he directs the Department of Church History. A specialist in the history of the papacy, the Roman Curia and papal diplomacy for the 19th and 20th centuries, Fr Regoli is author of Beyond the crisis of the Church: the Pontificate of Benedict XVI. In this interview, we also discuss the lasting impact of Benedict XVI’s 2006 Regensburg Address, his deep friendship with St John Paul II and the suggestion that Pope Benedict could one day be declared a Doctor of the Church.

Viktor Orbán was among world leaders to visit St Peter’s Basilica in Rome on Tuesday, where he paid his respects to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Photo: all rights reserved VATICAN CITY (January 3, 2023) Heads of state, cardinals, bishops, priests, religious and lay faithful continued on Tuesday and Wednesday to bid farewell to Pope Emeritus

These are the dates of destiny for the coming year, expounds Diane Montagna

VATICAN CITY: December 29, 2022 New details about Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s condition have emerged following Pope Francis’s request yesterday for prayers for the former pontiff. News of Benedict’s declining health was revealed on Wednesday, at the end of the usual general audience, when Pope Francis asked the faithful assembled in the Vatican’s Paul VI

Father Marko Rupnik at a private audience with Pope Francis at the Apostolic Palace on January 3, 2022 (Vatican Media) (ROME) Fr Marko Ivan Rupnik should stand trial, and any involvement Pope Francis had in directing the Vatican or the Jesuits on how the case was to be handled should be made known “sooner rather than

(ROME) Ever since the Fr Rupnik scandal broke earlier this month — alleging that the Slovenian Jesuit artist serially abused women religious of a community he helped to found — questions have been asked about how it has been handled and whether the Vatican and the Jesuits reacted with the transparency and accountability that both

Two pontificates. Two very different synodal visions. Which is correct?

In 2019 the controversial Abu Dhabi document asserted that God wills “the pluralism and the diversity of religions” in apparently the same sense that He wills a plurality of races and sexes. It was Bishop Athanasius Schneider from Kazakhstan who secured from Pope Francis an informal clarification, when the pontiff verbally conceded that God’s willing