The Ratzinger Report: An Exclusive Interview on the State of the Church

by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

Paperback, 1987

Barcode

5953

Call number

282 RAT

Status

Available

Call number

282 RAT

Pages

197

Description

Joseph Ratzinger (future Pope Benedict XVI), renowned theologian and Cardinal Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, gives an exclusive in-depth interview to a famous Italian journalist, Vittorio Messori, on the state of the church near the end of the of twentieth century. Cardinal Ratzinger speaks candidly and forcefully about the challenges of the Church in the Post-Vatican II era. Here is the complete text of a meeting many have called a "historical turnabout" in the Church. The roots of the crisis that has troubled Catholics in the twenty years since the Council are analyzed with forthright clarity by one of the most authoritative voices in the Vatican. This is a clear and uncompromising report on the dangers that threaten the Faith, from one who every day receives the most reliable information from every continent. Yet Ratzinger's observations are as hopeful and balanced as they are clear-sighted, forcefully re-affirming the immense and positive work of Vatican II, whose genuine fruits this book provides a guideline for achieving.… (more)

Publication

Ignatius Press (1987), 197 pages

Original publication date

1985

ISBN

0898700809 / 9780898700800

UPC

008987008095

Rating

½ (27 ratings; 3.9)

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LibraryThing member ManipledMutineer
An interesting, if sometimes drily-expressed, exposition of the thought of Benedict XVI on trends and tendencies in the Church whilst still Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Includes some interesting foreshadowings of the decisions of the Papacy, such as the dropping
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of Limbo. Well worth a read.
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