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This image of the Pierced Heart, Benedict writes, should lead us to prayerful self-reflection, repentance, and our allowing Christ to transform our lives.
--Mary Biese

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We can begin to begin receiving Benedict XVI in his mode of critic of secular modernity, as well as defender of the faith and the Church under four aspects or auspices, those of voice, vision, witness, and gratitude.
--Cyril O'Regan

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As ever, Ratzinger’s theology is thoroughly Christocentric, as he stresses that it is ultimately Christ who both opens the book of creation and is the one to whom it all points.
--Matthew Ramage

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Teaching, prophetic witness, and vision will be Benedict’s abiding legacy. Each was intrinsic to who he was; together they were constitutive.
--Cyril O'Regan

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Such a dialogue on liturgy must delve deeper than the question of mere musical style and examine the issue at its root, and it is Ratzinger who provides the first step toward this deeper conversation ...
--Carolyn Pirtle

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Introduction to Christianity represents part of Ratzinger’s move toward an “ethically motivated” faith that can stand as a meaningful alternative to secular ideologies for modern people.
--Chase Padusniak

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Coming soon to Church Life Journal:

Madeleine Delbrel and Adrienne von Speyr.

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Ratzinger’s strengths lay in the depth of his erudition and knowledge of the Tradition as a living, organic reality, and further in his ability to communicate it in a way that was new, fresh, and truly beautiful.
--Michael Heintz

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Perhaps more than any other text Benedict wrote, Introduction to Christianity best shows him as teacher.
--Cyril O'Regan

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It is reasonable to regard Ratzinger’s Introduction to Christianity as among the most significant works of 20th century Catholic theology, and as destined to enjoy the status of a classic.
--Kevin Miller

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We can look at Benedict XVI in the mode of a Christian public intellectual who addresses himself to the secular age and who at once engages its critical stances towards Christianity.
--Cyril O'Regan

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How does the Disney movie “Inside Out” help us make sense of the experience of loss, especially as an eschatological experience?

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Redemption is a key word of the Christian faith; it is also one of the Christian words that has been most emptied of meaning: even for believers, it is difficult to discover another reality behind it.
--Joseph Ratzinger

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Benedict’s reservations were never with the empirical findings of science, but rather with the unfounded and often unrecognized philosophical assumptions that lead some to overreach the limits of their respective fields.
--Matthew Ramage

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Ratzinger's Eschatology not only gives his fullest statement of what Christian hope allows, but also provides a space for himself and his readers to live personally and validate in their dying the ecstasy towards the God of the living.
--Cyril O'Regan

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