Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022), the 265th pope, served from April 19, 2005, to February 28, 2013—a period of 7 years, 10 months, and 10 days. He voluntarily resigned from the papacy. In a Latin ...

ROME — He doesn’t like sudden decisions or sensational gestures and grand proclamations. Agostino Giovagnoli, a professor of Church history at Milan’s Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, ...