In this Crisis Magazine classic, an up-and-coming writer named Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger meditates upon Romano Guardini’s masterwork, The Lord. Romano Guardini’s book The Lord has helped more than one generation of Christians enter into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. When the book first appeared, it offered a new approach to the spiritual interpretation … Read more
Romano Guardini’s book The Lord has helped more than one generation of Christians enter into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. When the book first appeared, it offered a new approach to the spiritual interpretation of Scripture for which young people in particular longed; a longing, I might add, which is being felt again in … Read more
Editor’s note: On November 6, 1992, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was inducted into the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of the Institute of France, taking the place of the late Andrei Sakharov. During the induction ceremonies the cardinal gave the following discourse in French. It … Read more
The theology of liberation is an extraordinarily complex phenomenon. Any concept of liberation theology has to be able to span positions ranging from the radically Marxist to those that stress necessary Christian responsibility towards the poor and the oppressed in the context of a sound ecclesiology, as did the documents of CELAM from Medellin to … Read more