Pope Francis voted for Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, in the 2005 conclave that followed the death of St. John Paul II.
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Benedict XVI was bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013. His papacy faced several challenges, including the effects of the...
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Bishop Barron's Word on Fire was selected to publish all of Joseph Ratzinger's pre-papal writings in English, many for the first time.
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(OSV News) -- Some two dozen works of the late Pope Benedict XVI's pre-papal writings will be made available in English, many for the first time, in a new...
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Cyril O'Regan, the Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected to receive the 2024 Ratzinger Pr...
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The late Pope Benedict XVI forged a path in dialogue between Catholic theology and modern philosophy that informed his own work.
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Joseph Ratzinger has been called the “Mozart of Theology.” In this course we will read one of his early books, Introduction to Christianity,...
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I first learned of Pope Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Ratzinger, from his former student, Father Joseph Fessio, SJ, during lectures he gave at two Catholic...
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In Vittorio Messori's "The Ratzinger Report" the future Benedict XVI speaks about the norms for discerning alleged supernatural phenomena. These same ...
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The Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation awards the Ratzinger Prize to Notre Dame theologian Cyril O'Regan and Japanese sculptor Etsurō Sotoo at...
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