By Communications Department - Archdiocese of Miami
Photographer: Osservatore Romano
At left, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, gives a lecture in New York in January 1988. At center, Newly elected Pope John Paul II greets Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Munich and Freising in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 22, 1978. At right, Pope Benedict XVI leads his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 20, 2011. Pope Benedict died Dec. 31, 2022, at the age of 95 in his residence at the Vatican.
