This Lenten and Holy Week meditation on Psalm 45 and the contemplation of beauty represents a message that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) sent to a meeting of the ecclesial movement Communion and Liberation in August 2002. The group was meeting in...
INTRODUCTION OF CARDINAL JOSEPH RATZINGER TO THE COMPENDIUM OF THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']1[/dropcaps]On 11 October 1992, Pope John Paul II presented the Catechism of the Catholic Church to the faithful of the whole world, describing it as a...
COVER LETTER TO BISHOPS' CONFERENCE PRESIDENTS Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger November 8, 1995 The publication in May 1994 of the apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis was followed by a number of problematic and negative statements by certain theologians, organizations of priests and religious, as well as some associations of lay...
CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH PRESENTATION OF THE APOSTOLIC LETTER IN THE FORM OF MOTU PROPRIO MISERICORDIA DEI INTERVENTION BY H. EM. CARD. JOSEPH RATZINGER Thursday, 2 May 2002 [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he fact that humanity needs purification and forgiveness is something that is most evident...
AN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRE-PAPAL WRITINGS OF BENEDICT XVI [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']B[/dropcaps]OOKS Ratzinger, Joseph Cardinal. Behold the Pierced One. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1987. _____. Called to Communion. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1996. _____. Church, Ecumenism, Politics: New Essays in Ecclesiology. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co.,...
Biblical Interpretation in Crisis: On the Question of the Foundations and Approaches of Exegesis Today by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]n Wladimir Solowjew's History of the Antichrist, the eschatological enemy of the Redeemer recommended himself to believers, among other things, by the fact that he...
Easter as the Spiritual Passover Pseudo Chrysostom [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he Passover we celebrate brings salvation to the whole human race beginning with the first man, who together with all the others is saved and given life. In an imperfect and transitory way, the types and...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps] The world of today reveals itself as at once powerful and weak, capable of achieving the best or the worst. There lies open before it the way to freedom or slavery, progress or regression, brotherhood or hatred. In addition, man...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']Y[/dropcaps]our eminences, venerable brothers, representatives of governments, gentlemen of the city of Rome, authorities and citizens of the entire world! You, observers belonging to so many different Christian denominations, and you, faithful and sons here present, and you also scattered...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']A[/dropcaps]dvocate If anyone does sin we have an ADVOCATE with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One (1 John 2:1). The Amen These things say THE AMEN, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation (Revelations 3:14). Apostle of Our Profession Therefore holy brethren...