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Pope Benedict XVI, (born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, 16 April 1927) served as Pope from 2005 until his resignation in 2013, the successor of Pope John Paul II and predecessor of Pope Francis.
Ordained a priest in 1951 in his native Bavaria, Ratzinger served as a highly regarded university theologian. He was appointed Archbishop of Munich and Freising and Cardinal by Pope Paul VI in 1977. In 1981, he was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under the papacy of John Paul II.
The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of…
Faith is not merely a personal reaching out towards things to come that are still totally absent: it gives us…
It is really so: the purpose of our lives is to reveal God to men. And only where God is…
Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental…
A striking feature of the angel’s greeting is that he does not address Mary with the usual Hebrew salutation shalom…
The Church reaffirms her great “yes” to the dignity and beauty of marriage as an expression of the faithful and…
I am convinced that the crisis in the Church that we are experiencing today is to a large extent due…
From the beginning, Christianity has understood itself as the religion of the Logos, as the religion according to reason… It…
The archetype for that coming of Christ, which we might call a “spiritual incarnation”, is always Mary. Just as the…
Among Christians, the word “peace” has taken on a very particular meaning: it has become a word to designate communion…
Tonight let us look at the shepherds. What kind of people were they? In the world of their time, shepherds…
These words, “Do not fear”, must have deeply penetrated Mary’s heart. We can imagine how in various situations the Virgin…
