When Joseph Ratzinger broke with the editorial board of the journal Concilium in the late sixties, he gave a number of ...

Cardinal Ratzinger later became Pope Benedict XVI ... The 1983 document, referenced in the recent Vatican communication, underscores that the negative judgment toward Masonic associations remains ...

Joseph Ratzinger is one of the most preeminent theologians ... He’s a really important figure in the reception and interpretation of Vatican II,” Paone said. “He has interpreted the council ...

What Vatican II wanted In the Constitution on the ... We cannot begin to understand it without reference to our Redeemer. Cardinal Ratzinger wrote in Spirit of the Liturgy (p.

Pope Benedict, then called Josef Ratzinger, held the position from 1977 ... Since then, he has led a largely quiet life in the Vatican City and is known as pope emeritus. The new report from ...

S.J., but criticized by then-professor Joseph Ratzinger at Vatican II—threatens to prevail over the patristic notion that takes as its starting point the role of the bishop in his local church.

Pope John Paul II with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger during his inauguration as Pastor of the Church on October 22, 1978 in Vatican City. (photo: LOR / Vatican Media ...

Since the Second Vatican Council, the question has come up more than once. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, didn’t think much of bishops’ conferences, the national or ...

Cardinal Walter Kasper, a respected German theologian and an influential voice at the Vatican, told a German church journal ...

Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota and Word on Fire Catholic Ministries were presented with chasubles worn by Pope Benedict ...