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  • Pope Benedict XVI: Servant of the Truth – Do you know the real Pope Benedict? Journalist Peter Seewald does. After writing an unfair attack on Cardinal Ratzinger, he was urged by Catholic readers to meet with the man he was maligning. He did so — and the result was two book-length interviews, Salt of the Earth, and God and the World. Seewald also returned to his Catholic faith, saying that Ratzinger was the one who "taught me what it meant to swim against the stream." more..

  • Benedict XVI: An Intimate Portrait – In the person of Benedict XVI, the Church has a Pope who is one of the most significant of Europe's intellectuals. The journalist Peter Seewald, who has known Ratzinger since 1992, conducted the "longest interviews in Church history" with him, for two books which were best-sellers world-wide, Salt of the Earth, and God and the World. more..

  • Pope Benedict XVI: The Conscience of Our Age – Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, a former doctoral student of Joseph Ratzinger and long time friend of the Pope, felt the need to respond to the common question he heard often after the papal election, "What kind of person is the new Pope?" So often Twomey had read false depictions of both the man and his thought, especially the image presented by the media as a grim enforcer. more..

  • Milestones: Memoirs: 1927 - 1977 – Rich in humor and culture, as well as passion and love for the cause of God and of man, Milestones is the early autobiography of Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger. It tells the fascinating and inspiring story of his early family life, the years under Nazi oppression in Germany, and his part in World War II — including how as a teenager he was forced to join the Hitler Youth and the German army, from which he risked his life to flee. more..

  • The Ratzinger Report – Cardinal Ratzinger speaks candidly and forcefully about the state 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. more..

  • Salt of the Earth – Cardinal Ratzinger gives a full-length interview to secular journalist Peter Seewald, on a host of controversial and difficult issues facing Catholicism and Christianity at the end of the millennium. Similar to his best-selling book interview in 1985, The Ratzinger Report, he responds with candor and insight, giving answers that are often surprising and always thought-provoking on a series of wide-ranging topics regarding the present and future state of Christianity. more..

  • God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time – During his years as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger has given three in-depth interviews. The first two interviews have become best selling books: The Ratzinger Report and Salt of the Earth. Because of the tremendous reception those books received, he agreed to do another interview with journalist Peter Seewald, who had done the very popular Salt of the Earth interview. This third in-depth interview addresses deep questions of faith and the living of that faith in the modern world. more..

  • Light Of The World: The Pope, The Church and The Signs Of The Times – Never has a Pope, in a book-length interview, dealt so directly with such wide-ranging and controversial issues as Pope Benedict XVI does in Light of the World. Taken from a recent week-long series of interviews with veteran journalist Peter Seewald, this book tackles head-on some of the greatest issues facing the world of our time. more..

The Encyclicals of Pope Benedict XVI

  • God is Love: Deus Caritas Est – Everyone needs love. Everyone desires love. But not everyone understands love. In fact, love is probably the most misunderstood subject in history. In his first Encyclical, Pope Benedict helps to clarify the meaning of love. more..

  • Saved in Hope: Spe Salvi – Pope Benedict XVI's second encyclical, Saved In Hope, ("Spe Salvi" in Latin) takes its title from St. Paul, who wrote, "In hope we have been saved". In this special deluxe hardcover edition of the work, the Holy Father continues a line of thought he began with his first encyclical, God is Love. more..

  • Charity in Truth: Caritas in Veritate – Benedict XVI has something for everyone in Charity in Truth — from praising profit to defending the environment, from calling for a role for government in the economy to insisting on the necessity of moral transformation and "gratuitousness" in economic life, from the issue of immigration to the importance of technology. However, he also insists on discernment and the purification of our ideas by faith and reason, in order to temper any immoderate and one-sided enthusiasms. more..

Pope Benedict's Jesus of Nazareth Series

  • Jesus of Nazareth, Vol. I – In this bold, momentous work, Joseph Ratzinger — in his first book written since he became Pope — seeks to salvage the person of Jesus from recent "popular" depictions and to restore Jesus' true identity as discovered in the Gospels. Through his brilliance as a theologian and his personal conviction as a believer, the Pope shares a rich, compelling, flesh-and-blood portrait of Jesus and invites us to encounter, face-to-face, the central figure of the Christian faith. more.. Also available: Study Guide

  • Jesus of Nazareth, Vol. II – For Christians, Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God, who died for the sins of the world, and who rose from the dead in triumph over sin and death. For non-Christians, he is almost anything else--a myth, a political revolutionary, a prophet whose teaching was misunderstood or distorted by his followers. Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God, and no myth, revolutionary, or misunderstood prophet, insists Benedict XVI. more.. Also available: Study Guide

Films

  • Pope Benedict: A Love Affair With the Truth – The first in-depth biographical documentary film on the life of Pope Benedict XVI, from his childhood in Bavaria, Germany to his papacy as the Vicar of Christ. It includes unique film footage of his youthful days, his ordination to the priesthood, his consecration as Bishop, elevation to Cardinal, his work as head of the CDF and a close colleague of Pope John Paul II, his election as Pope, and what he has accomplished so far in his first three years of his papacy. more..

  • Holy Week in Rome: A Journey with the Pope – Filmed on location, see how Holy Week is celebrated in Rome in this inspiring film as we hear from the Pope, theologians, and art historians about Jesus' last days on earth and how those moments have been relived throughout the centuries in Church ceremony and art. more..

 
 

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