“Practical governance was not my forte and this certainly was a weakness.”
Pope Benedict XVI
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New book from Pope Benedict addresses resignation and ‘gay lobby’ in the Vatican
The retired pope has given another interview to the journalist and author Peter Seewald.
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‘Allahu akbar’ was never a call to violence and destruction.
Editors Note, Feb. 25, 2019: America has become aware that this article included extensive unattributed material from other sources. Accordingly, we have removed the text. A Feb. 22 story in the National Post of Canada documented multiple cases in which Father Rosica used material from other authors without providing proper citations. “What I’ve done is wrong, and I am sorry about that,” […]
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Regensburg Redux: Was Pope Benedict XVI Right About Islam?
Eight years ago this Friday Sept 12 Pope Benedict XVI delivered a lecture at the University of Regensburg in Bavaria in which he seemed to diagnose Islam as a religion inherently flawed by fanaticism It was an undiplomatic assertion to say the least.
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Joseph Ratzinger: The local church and the universal church
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger responds to a 2001 America article by Cardinal Walter Kasper on the relationship between the universal church and local churches.
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Pope Benedict’s greatest disconnect from U.S. elites wasn’t about sex. It was over economic justice.
For secular Washington, Benedict was the pope of no. For those who listened, Benedict is more the pope of and, connecting charity and truth, faith and reason.
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A Historic Departure: Reflections on Benedict XVI’s surprise decision to resign
On Feb. 11, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI announced a decision that will have far-reaching implications for the modern church.
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C.S. Lewis, Pope Benedict and Blessed John Henry Newman
Many of us today remember C. S. Lewis for writing the books which led to the film series “Chronicles of Narnia.”
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Of Many Things
The pope visits Yankee Stadium, and other sacred moments in secular spaces.
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Pope Benedict on hope: Considering the pope’s new encyclical
An analysis of the encyclical ‘Spe Salvi’