Presents a photo-biography of the Pope's life from infancy through the first year of his papacy, giving an overview that helps reveal who the man is that now sits on the Chair of St. Peter.
This work on the new Pope important in its unique approach to the thought and person of who this Pontiff is for Christians everywhere to better understand him, his leadership and his role as the most respected spiritual teacher in the world ...
Charity in Truth
This is no stern preachment or ponderous theological tract, but a lively, fast-paced, challenging, even entertaining exchange.
Based in the riches of Christian worship and tradition, this book helps readers put back together again faith and reason, truth and beauty, and the fragmented academic disciplines.
A series of meditations that Pope Benedict XVI wrote while he was Prefect for the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith provides a better understanding of the true Jesus, the Jesus of the Gospels, the Christ of Christianity.
Ratzinger--now Pope Benedict XVI--exercises his role as teacher and spiritual leader with this impressive work on the crucial topics of the relationship between religion, morality, culture, truth and politics in these troubled times. ...
Benedict's remarks help to shed light on the passages from Spe Salvi with which I opened this essay, for they imply that engagement in the search for truth promotes the inner growth and ethical development needed for a more human basis ...
In Nietzschean terms it is the mentality of the herd, the attitude of someone who just cannot be bothered to be great. It is bourgeois because it is calculating and pragmatic and comfortable with what is common and ordinary, ...
5 Clement of Rome, First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, XL, 1–5, in The Epistles of St. Clement of Rome and St. Ignatius of Antioch, trans. James A. Kleist, ACW 1 (Westminster, Md.: Newman Bookshop, 1946), 33–34.