Pope Benedict XVI’s “First Convert”

Following closely from afar: My journey with Joseph Ratzinger

By Brad Bursa, Ph.D. on Jan 02, 2023 10:24 pm
I stood in the dank darkness — a fairly typical mid-winter morning in Cincinnati — holding an umbrella over my newly lighted charcoal. The sun remained asleep and the strange noises of night lingered in [...]
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The theological legacy of Benedict XVI

By Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD on Jan 02, 2023 06:54 pm
Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI will be remembered above all for his literary and scholarly output. Many of his Collected Works (sixteen massive volumes in German) have been translated into several languages and are only now [...]
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Pope Benedict XVI’s “First Convert”

By Roger Dubin on Jan 02, 2023 03:50 pm
Editor’s note: This essay was first posted at CWR on April 16, 2013. Groucho Marx once said, “I wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would have a guy like me as a member.”  [...]
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Catholic converts: ‘Benedict XVI led me into the Catholic Church’

By Catholic News Agency on Jan 02, 2023 01:00 pm
Pope Benedict XVI, May 11, 2010 / Mazur/www.thepapalvisit.org.uk Washington D.C., Jan 2, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA). In the days after news spread that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was nearing the end of his life, a number of Catholic converts shared ...