Ratzinger in a sentence

His sister, Maria Ratzinger, who never married, managed Cardinal Ratzinger's household until her death in 1991.

And yet the historical record is clear: whatever changes that Ratzinger’s thinking underwent during his long career, he always understood Vatican II reform as involving both continuity and discontinuity.

As Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he was Archbishop of Munich and Freising from 1977 to 1982.

Born Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict was a brilliant theologian but a divisive figure who alienated many Catholics with his staunch defense of conservative doctrine on issues such as abortion.

During these years, Ratzinger presided over the drafting of many significant theological documents in the field of moral theology and two documents on Liberation Theology.

Even if having been a member of Hitler Youth doesn't disqualify you from the papacy (which it should), Ratzinger shouldn't be given a pass for his youthful indiscretions.

Given Ratzinger’s time in the German army, some opponents characterized him as the “Panzer Cardinal,” a strict disciplinarian for a recalcitrant church.

In addition, the fact that Ratzinger was a shy man with a professorial bac.

Indeed, Ratzinger’s retirement plan was to return to Germany, where he had a house where they would live with his older brother, also a priest, Georg, the three of them together.

In fact, as in so many areas of theology, here too Ratzinger/Benedict made several important contributions.

Ratzinger countered with a ‘theology of reconciliation’, following the Pope’s admonition that “a more harmonious society” would “require both forgiveness from the poor, for past exploitation, and sacrifice from the rich”.

Ratzinger’s scowling successors continue to hold the Church in their grasp.

See Joseph Ratzinger, The Spirit of the Liturgy, trans.

The body of the German pope, whose birth name was Joseph Ratzinger, will stay at the monastery until early on Monday morning.

The former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger visited Macau and Hong Kong in March 1993 where he met with the SARs’ bishops, Domingos Lam and John Baptist Wu.

The student revolts of 1968, however, persuaded Ratzinger that the reform movement he championed had grown too radical.

Those actions prompted liberal Catholics to dub then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger "God's Rottweiler".

Tracey Rowland holds the St. John Paul II Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame (Australia), and is a recipient of the Ratzinger Award for theology (2020).

According to Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz, winner of the 2021 Ratzinger Prize, the Holy Father must draw a ‘red line’ against the doctrinal and ecclesiological errors German Church leaders are propagating.

Professor O’Regan “is much appreciated by students for his attentive teaching relationship,” a statement from the Ratzinger Foundation noted.