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The Ratzinger Report: An Exclusive interview on the State of hte Church Paperback – 1 September 1985

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Joseph Ratzinger (future Pope Benedict XVI), renowned theologian and Cardinal Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, gives an exclusive in-depth interview to a famous Italian journalist, Vittorio Messori, on the state of the church near the end of the of twentieth century. Cardinal Ratzinger speaks candidly and forcefully about the challenges of the Church in the Post-Vatican II era. Here is the complete text of a meeting many have called a "historical turnabout" in the Church. The roots of the crisis that has troubled Catholics in the twenty years since the Council are analyzed with forthright clarity by one of the most authoritative voices in the Vatican. This is a clear and uncompromising report on the dangers that threaten the Faith, from one who every day receives the most reliable information from every continent. Yet Ratzinger's observations are as hopeful and balanced as they are clear-sighted, forcefully re-affirming the immense and positive work of Vatican II, whose genuine fruits this book provides a guideline for achieving.
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    Ignatius Press
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    1 September 1985
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    13.46 x 1.52 x 20.07 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0898700809
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    978-0898700800
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Vittorio Messori is an acclaimed Italian journalist and author. Besides this exclusive interview with Cardinal Ratzinger, he also conducted the first book-length interview with Pope John Paul II, published under the pope's authorship and the title Crossing the Threshold of Hope. He is also the author of Kidnapped by the Vatican? The Unpublished Memoirs of Edgardo Mortara

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ignatius Press; Revised edition (1 September 1985)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 197 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0898700809
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0898700800
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.46 x 1.52 x 20.07 cm
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Born in 1927 in Germany as Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI has been head of the Roman Catholic Church since April 2005. A prolific author, theologian and university professor, Ratzinger served as an "expert" at the Second Vatican Council, and was tapped in 1977 by Pope Paul VI to lead the German Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. In 1981, Pope John Paul II called him to Rome to head the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, where he served until his papal election.

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Cardinal Ratzinger, future Pope Benedict XVI, answers poignant questions regarding the Second Vatican Council on issues that have been misrepresented by the press and media of <decommunication>, as many should be called.
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Joanne Ryan
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This is an excellent, and still relevant, assessment of the Church post Vatican II. The assessment is objective and to the point, no time is wasted getting to the heart of the issue in each answer. I actually enjoyed the book so much I ordered a longer interview with the pope emeritus, namely 'God and the World' with the journalist Peter Seewald, for an even broader range of questions.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ratzinger Report. An Exclusive Interview on the State of the Church
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ラッチンガー長官の鋭い考察は、極めて貴重なインタビューです。
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Ancient Bookworm
5.0 out of 5 stars A book of love and comfort for all Christians
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To simple readers like me -- never mind all the fancy talk in the reviews! This is a book of great love and comfort for ordinary Christians. For example:

The interviewer asked, "Can then a 'modern' Catholic again begin to read the Bible without bothering himself too much over complicated exegetical questions?'
"Certainly," [ Cardinal Ratzinger replies.]." Every Catholic must have the courage to believe that his faith (in communion with that of the Church) surpasses every 'new magisterium' of the experts, of the intellectuals."

"Exegetical" means "explanatory," and "magisterium" means "teaching authority, especially of the Catholic Church." The meanings of these words are implicit in Cardinal Ratzinger's prose, beautifully translated as it is, and I only used a dictionary to be sure that my reading was absolutely correct for this review.

My recommendation of this book extends not only to Catholics, but to all Christians.
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