I chose to call myself Benedict XVI ideally as a link to the venerated Pontiff, Benedict XV, who guided the Church through the turbulent times of the First World War. He was a true and courageous ...

Those are the words of Pope Benedict XV from 1917, during World War I. Benedict XV said the belligerents must replace “the material force of arms” with “the moral force of law,” and called ...

These events also formed backdrop to the Irish revolution (1912-1923), in which the papacy of Benedict XV would become seriously embroiled. Relations between Catholic Ireland and the Vatican had ...

Dublin, 26 August 1918 - Cardinal Logue has written to the press apologising for the delay in forwarding the letter from Pope Benedict XV addressed to the Irish bishops. The delay was attributed ...