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Original title
  
Rapporto Sulla Fede

Publication date
  
1985

ISBN
  
978-0-89870-080-0

Page count
  
197

Publisher
  
Ignatius Press

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
197

Originally published
  
1985

Genre
  
Religion

Translator
  
Salvator Attanasio

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Authors
  
Pope Benedict XVI, Vittorio Messori

Similar
  
Pope Benedict XVI books, Catholic Church books

The Ratzinger Report (Italian: Rapporto Sulla Fede) is a 1985 book consisting of a series of interviews collected over several days given by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger to the Italian journalist Vittorio Messori. The book focuses on the state of the Roman Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council. The book is very critical of the "hermeneutic of rupture" associated with the liberal "spirit of Vatican II" within the Church. It has often been reread in the context of the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI in order to better understand the mind and the thinking of the former pontiff.

Topics

  • The true Spirit and letter of Vatican II
  • The Church as God's Church, not the laity Church
  • The nature of the priesthood
  • The papacy, the episcopacy, and the role of bishops' conferences.
  • Liberalism, relativism and the permissiveness of modern society
  • The role of women
  • Six reasons not to forget the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Spirituality for today
  • The dignity of the liturgy, the eucharist as the heart of faith, and the difference between solemnity and triumphalism
  • The devil, the angels, purgatory, and limbo
  • Ecumenism and Christian unity
  • Liberation theology, Marxism and capitalism
  • Evangelization and why Jesus is the only Savior

    • References

    The Ratzinger Report Wikipedia
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