CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italia (CNS) -- El papa Benedicto XVI, quien empezó su papado describiéndose a sí mismo como "humilde servidor en la viña del Señor", describió su retiro como momento de empezar a ser "sencillo peregrino, que inicia la última etapa de su peregrinaje en esta tierra".

El papa Benedicto XVI continuará siendo conocido como papa Benedicto y se le dirigirá como "Su Santidad", pero después de su renuncia añadirá el título de "emérito" en una de dos formas aceptables, ya sea "papa emérito" o "pontífice romano emérito".

After Pope Benedict XVI officially became pope emeritus, he ate dinner, watched the television news and strolled through the lake-view rooms of the papal villa at Castel Gandolfo.

Incarnate Word Academy faculty and staff will receive training on Friday, March 1, on the school’s shelter-in-place and general safety procedures.

The Jubilee Year of 2000 heralded new beginnings for the Diocese of Corpus Christi, but thankfully it was not the predicted Y2K disaster so feared by many. Instead there were “tidings of great joy” in the announcement of a new bishop and a new diocese.

Its blue dome and stars has become a well-known landmark seen by thousands of motorists from IH 37.

On Wednesday, Feb. 13, Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey celebrated Ash Wednesday Mass at Corpus Christi Cathedral and urged the faithful not to let Lent end at the end of the Mass or the end of the day, but to live it for 40 days in the desert in silence, listening and making a decision to follow Jesus Christ.

Mary Ann González had a total hysterectomy last May and the biopsy results were not what she and her family had been praying for.

El pasado 10 de Febrero, en la Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos, Madre de la Iglesia, se celebró el tercer aniversario de la llegada de la Imagen de la Virgen de San Juan de los Lagos a esa parroquia en Corpus Christi.

Wherever journalists and bookmakers may be getting the names on their lists of top candidates for the next pope, it’s not from the cardinals who will actually vote in the election.

Here is an explanation of some of the terms and practices related to the time between Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation at 8 p.m. Feb. 28 and the election of a new pope.

Saying he no longer has the strength to exercise ministry over the universal church, Pope Benedict XVI announced Feb. 11 that he would resign after an eight-year pontificate.

I have convoked you to this consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.

April 19, 2005: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, 78, elected pope and takes the name Benedict XVI.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI, who has dedicated much of his pontificate to shaping the church’s understanding of the Second Vatican Council, devoted one of his last public addresses to the subject, recalling his experiences and lamenting widespread distortions of its teachings.

For a program that the White House has never officially acknowledged, the use of missile-laden drones to strike suspected Muslim militants hardly remains a secret.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- To help dioceses, parishes and other groups pray for Pope Benedict XVI and for the selection of a new pope, the Secretariat of Divine Worship of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has provided liturgical and musical resources as well as specific prayers.

Archbishop William E. Lori said in an address in Scottsdale, Arizona that Americans are “once again at a crossroads in how religious freedom is understood and exercised in our country.”

The ribbon cutting for the new Incarnate Word High School track took a novel approach on Feb. 1 as members of the school’s track team, Ethan Metz, Sarita Pettus, Tyler Cortez, Remy Ellison, Jackson Bright and Kayla Dural, raced around the track breaking a red ribbon at the finish line.

We find no good reason for honoring the decision of his holiness Pope Benedict XVI to resign the Petrine office at the end of this month with anything less than the gratitude and prayerful best wishes one would offer any good servant of the Lord who has labored long and hard in the vineyard.