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Pope Benedict XVI:
Servant of the Truth
Who is Pope Benedict?
Journalist Peter Seewald does. After writing an attack on Cardinal
Ratzinger, he was urged by Catholic readers to meet with the man he was
maligning. He did so, and the result was two book-length interviews, Salt of
the Earth and God and the World. Seewald returned to his
Catholic faith, saying that Ratzinger was the one who “taught me what it meant
to swim against the stream.”
This book, written mainly by
Seewald, describes the paths of Joseph Ratzinger’s life from his birthplace in
Bavaria all the way to being the first German Pope in 482 years. It is lavishly
illustrated with a collection of over 150 of some of the most personal, and most
surprising, photographs. These show the Pope as he really is: “a humble servant
in the vineyard of the Lord”.
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 Handing
on the Faith in an Age of Disbelief
Why is it a challenge to transmit the
Catholic faith today? What obstacles hinder modern men, women, and
children from obeying the Gospel? Are science, technology, and
mass media at odds with Christianity? Are new teaching methods helping to solve
the crisis in catechesis? How can the Church better
present her precious patrimony to subsequent generations?
To address these questions, some
great churchmen of our times, including Joseph Cardinal
Ratzinger, the man who would become Pope Benedict XVI, gathered in France in
1983 for two important conferences.
 Images of Hope
Meditations on Major
Feasts
In
Images of Hope: Meditations on Major Feasts, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
(now Pope Benedict XVI) masterfully weaves together Scripture, history,
literature and theology as he reflects on major feasts of the liturgical
calendar. In each chapter, he examines works of sacred art that illustrate the
hope we celebrate in our most important Christian holy
days
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