Joseph Ratzinger
MADRID, SPAIN - MAY 09: Protesters in costumes depicting (L-R) Angela Merkel and Joseph Ratzinger make a fascist salute as students and teachers take part in a demonstrations against education cuts and reforms on May 9, 2013 in Madrid, Spain. Both student and teacher's unions called for a national general education strike.
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I know well how we were exposed to those images in the hour of the important decisions, how they challenged us and how they instilled in our souls the greatness of our responsibility
is a larger-than-life man from the Midwest with a radiant smile and overflowing vigor, precisely that 'vigor of both body and mind' which Joseph Ratzinger recognized he had lost and defined as necessary for his successor.
In 2005, there was a strong candidate -- Joseph RatzingerMore quotes »
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Pope Benedict XVI considered a friend in Israel
-- When Joseph Ratzinger became pope in 2005, many in Israel wondered whether the German-born Cardinal with the Nazi past would prove a worthy successor to the popular Pope John Paul II , whose pluralistic path helped sooth centuries of fraught relations between Read more »
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Keeler: Pope Benedict XVI should be admired for the tough decision to resign
much as the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI filled me -- and many Catholics -- with a sense of dread, his letter announcing his resignation from the papacy was deeply touching. Here was a man of strong German stock, but declining Read more »
Around the web
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Vatican Swaps Masters for Modernity
In October of 1999, at the end of a meeting of departmental chiefs in the Vatican, I confronted Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and challenged him. The meeting was meant to discuss available options for dealing with the ... more ›› The Vatican decision last ye from Real Clear Religion Read more »
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Can Francis Finish the Job?
In October of 1999, at the end of a meeting of departmental chiefs in the Vatican, I confronted Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and challenged him. The meeting was meant to discuss available options for dealing with the already-burgeoning international crisis from Real Clear Religion Read more »
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Benedict XVI: Doctor of the Church
Perhaps it may seem a bit premature, but here goes: Benedict XVI should be declared a . There are, if I count correctly, 33 such esteemed Doctors, the most recent being St. Thérèse of Lisieux, who died in 1897, and the most recently declared being St. Hi from National Catholic Register Read more »
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And that's the way it was: April 19, 2005
On this day in 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, after the death of Pope John Paul II. He reigned as Pope Benedict XVI for eight years, amidst criticism and controversy , before abdicating the papacy from Columbia Journalism Review Read more »
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Exploding the Mithras Myth: Proof that Christianity did not borrow its beliefs from an ancient Roman religion
This article appeared in the May/June 2013 edition of Catholic Answers Magazine. Click here to subscribe. In an effort to cast doubt on Christianity, skeptics will attempt to point out parallels between the beliefs and practices of Christians to those of from The New Advent Read more »
