Joseph Ratzinger - Homilies, Speeches, Interviews, Writings
Joseph Ratzinger had a prolific output of homilies and speeches and gave several interviews before he became Pope Benedict XVI. This thread is intended to provide easy access to them and to related...
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Wonderful, wonderful find, Benodette! I will print it out tomorrow!Bravissima!
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DPAPeter Steinfels in Commonweal, 2010 - When Cardinal Ratzinger was elected pope, I read Salt of the Earth, one of the previous volumes of interviews with Peter Seewald, and was very struck by what...
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Cardinal Ratzinger travelled to Milan to personally conduct the funeral Mass of Luigi Giussani , a man he considered as close friend. He gave this very beautiful homily and the emotion can clearly be...
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Watching this video is rather bittersweet, Benodette. For one, seeing the Duomo di Milano again brings back memories - I attended Mass at the Duomo several years ago. It was a very simple affair,...
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This great homily at the funeral of John Paul II, given a few weeks after the one for Luigi Giussani in Milan Cathedral, is what introduced Cardinal Ratzinger to a raft of enthusiastic new "fans". At...
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In January 2004, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Jurgen Habermas took part in a dialogue on reason and religion. This meeting of sorts between two great intellectuals is now the stuff of legend. I...
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In January 2004, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Jurgen Habermas took part in what was to become a famous dialogue on reason and religion. This is the second part of a commentary by Virgil Nemoianu on...
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Many thanks Unicorn for posting this interesting article on the famous Ratzinger Habermas debate. I have not found a transcript online. A book entitled The Dialectics of Secularization is a transcript...
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If only the book were available in my country, Benodette ... *Sigh* If the photos of these two great German intellectuals are anything to go by, it must have been a very stimulating and spirited...
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Almost eleven years ago, the Ratzinger-Habermas Debate took place in Bavaria. This is the final installment of a commentary by Virgil Nemoianu on this by now-legendary dialogue between the well-known...
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Many thanks Unicorn for posting this important article about Joseph Ratzinger and the debate with Habermas
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This address is entitled "An ever-reforming company" . The company refers to the Church.Dear friends!Thank you for your very warm welcome! You know the title of my lecture: 'An ever-reforming...
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APThis interview was conducted by Vatican Radio in November 2001 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Cardinal Ratzinger's appointment to the CDF. Q: How is it possible today to have authority...
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DPAAleteia - Laying it out in a 1969 broadcast on German radio -He didn’t pretend he could tell the future. No. He was much too wise for that. As a matter of fact, he tempered his initial remarks with...
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Homily of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Congregation of the Faith, at the Xth Mariological World Congress in Kevelaer on 11 September 1987.
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An unpublished homily by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger days after the death of Paul VIFour days after Paul VI's death, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Archbishop of Munich and Freising, celebrated Mass in his...
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Cardinal Ratzinger preaches the homily at the funeral of Luigi Giussani, founder of the Communion and Liberation movement. Milan Cathedral, 24 February 2005.
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This homily was given in the Cathedral of Bayeux on the Feast of the Holy Trinity, June 6, 2004 as part of the commemorative events for the 60th anniversary of D Dayhe feast of the Holy Trinity is...
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