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Wazupnaija: Why do heretics remain in the Church they’re attacking? Father Joseph Ratzinger had an interesting and unexpected answer to this question..... -
Influencer4God: "The loss of joy does not make the world better - and, conversely, refusing joy for the sake of suffering does not help those who suffer."
― Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI
[Thank you Jesus for flowers - they bring me joy.]
okwuohq: However, the position ultimately went to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI. Despite this disappointment, Arinze remained a faithful and dedicated servant of the Catholic Church, continuing to work tirelessly for the betterment of the Church and the world.
erdman83khd: A Living Sacrifice: Liturgy and Eschatology in Joseph Ratzinger R1HGZDH
247Catholic: Joseph Ratzinger: The Mystery of the Annunciation is the Mystery of Grace
ChurchLifeND: The rhythm of the heavenly bodies is, in a deeper sense, an expression of the rhythm of the Heart that created the heavens and mankind, an expression of the rhythm of God’s love, which manifests itself in them.
--Joseph Ratzinger
mabrumley: Joseph Ratzinger: The Mystery of the Annunciation is the Mystery of Grace – Catholic World Report
pastorabharris: "We wish to make it clear that departure from the Church's teaching or silence about it in an effort to provide pastoral care is neither caring nor pastoral. Only what is true can ultimately be pastoral." —Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
jshocds: A multifaceted affirmation of Joseph Ratzinger’s theology of liturgy – Catholic World Report.
25bjh54: A multifaceted affirmation of Joseph Ratzinger’s theology of liturgy -
Thewarning9: "Men in a totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely. If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the whole horror of their poverty. Then they will discover The Little Flock of believers as something wholly new."
Father Joseph Ratzinger (1969)
cworldreport: For the Annunciation, here are some selections from Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's "From Dogma und Verkundigung," quoted in "Co-Workers of the Truth: Meditations for Every Day of the Year" and "Daughter Zion: Meditations on the Church’s Marian Belief"
frwyllie: "We wish to make it clear that departure from the Church's teaching, or silence about it, in an effort to provide pastoral care is neither caring nor pastoral. Only what is true can ultimately be pastoral." —Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (PEBXVI)
JeanieHannaman: "The mystery of the annunciation to Mary is not just a mystery of silence. It is above and beyond all that a mystery of grace... Why did Christ really want to be born of a virgin?..." Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
OldRomanTV: Joseph Ratzinger: The Mystery of the Annunciation is the Mystery of Grace – Catholic World Report
NovusOrdoWatch: Why is it that people who say Bergoglio can't be Pope because of his manifest heresies, somehow fail to see the manifest heresies of Joseph Ratzinger?
ramon_unready: This is beautifully written, made up of different parts that give a clear sense of who Joseph Ratzinger was.
brysonjs: Optimism is fuel for a dangerous disorientation in theology. In my article today, look at what Joseph Ratzinger and Ida Friederike Görres had to say about heresy-lovers in the Church in the 1970s, as we watch this continue in our own era.
247Catholic: A multifaceted affirmation of Joseph Ratzinger’s theology of liturgy
marcpuck: Wonder why Dr W. thought it necessary to return to this now?
"If the appointment of Bishop Wilmer to the position once held by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is made...it would mean that, in the next conclave, all the cards would be face up on the table...."
GreatTribulati1: ... assume that they themselves are infallible measuring rods; ..."
Prophecy of Father Joseph Ratzinger
on the Future of the Church (1969)
levanrami: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger on Spiritual Roots of Europe
Catholictruth_: "We wish to make it clear that departure from the Church's teaching, or silence about it, in an effort to provide pastoral care is neither caring nor pastoral. Only what is true can ultimately be pastoral." —Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (PEBXVI)
cworldreport: In The Dynamics of Liturgy, Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, who studied under Ratzinger, brings his own experience as a theologian and as a missionary to his insightful interpretation of the great theologian’s thought and work, writes Andrew T.J. Kaethler.
OldRomanTV: A multifaceted affirmation of Joseph Ratzinger’s theology of liturgy – Catholic World Report
ProfKevin: I think - if I'm counting correctly - that there have been only five popes with Joseph as part of their baptismal names. (Only one of those, Joseph Ratzinger, had it as his first name.)
JLLiedl: When asked about the vision at the heart of CUCT, Fr. Ohly cited Joseph Ratzinger: we are only able to do theology “because God has spoken to us.”
VaticanNews: March 19, feast of St Joseph, is the name feast of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, adopted the name Benedict on his election as Pope on 19 April 2005.
GreatTribulati1: "The future of the Church, once again as always, will be reshaped by saints, by men, that is, whose minds probe deeper than the slogans of the day, who see more than others see, because their lives embrace a wider reality."
Father Joseph Ratzinger (1969)
pootinontheritz: This morning I was told that Joseph Ratzinger died and I spent the whole day mourning Hamm from Toy Story. Dont worry, John Ratzenberger is fine.
MPHickie: Faith is not maintained automatically. It is not a ‘finished business’ that we can simply take for granted. The life of faith has to be constantly renewed.
—Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
dickyputz: Faith is not maintained automatically. It is not a ‘finished business’ that we can simply take for granted. The life of faith has to be constantly renewed.
—Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
from his book Gospel, Catechesis, Catechism
JosephLChavez: Faith is not maintained automatically. It is not a ‘finished business’ that we can simply take for granted. The life of faith has to be constantly renewed.
—Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
fighthefall: The Sadducees weren't the only ones to deny the resurrection of the body.
"It now becomes clear that the real heart of faith in the Resurrection does not consist at all in the idea of the restoration of bodies."
- Joseph Ratzinger, "Introduction to Christianity", 1968
Sabbath_shalom: “We all suffer from spiritual pride , but we should all remember that we’re not God” - Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger
JMJCatholic: Faith is not maintained automatically. It is not a ‘finished business’ that we can simply take for granted. The life of faith has to be constantly renewed.
—Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict
GKudyba: Faith is not maintained automatically. It is not a ‘finished business’ that we can simply take for granted. The life of faith has to be constantly renewed.
—Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
from his book Gospel, Catechesis, Catechism
Sabbath_shalom: “Life is easy when everyone speaks Latin” - Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger
25bjh54: Faith is not maintained automatically. It is not a ‘finished business’ that we can simply take for granted. The life of faith has to be constantly renewed.
—Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
from his book Gospel, Catechesis, Catechism
biasbreakdown: Faith is not maintained automatically. It is not a ‘finished business’ that we can simply take for granted. The life of faith has to be constantly renewed.
—Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
november_prayer: joseph ratzinger celebrating mass in the mountains
OwenKean: Can’t believe it’s a decade since Joseph Ratzinger stopped zinging them rats.
matthew__theo: Don’t be fooled.
Joseph Ratzinger was one of the main forces behind Vatican II and it’s reforms.
247Catholic: Extra, extra! News and views for March 8, 2023
marbarito: Requiescat in pacem Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger ✝️
wjjhoge: Joseph Ratzinger was unavailable for comment.
DeannaTheMrs: Book Review: Jesus of Nazareth by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
RSMuseum: Ascendit Deus - The Bavarian Pope, The Life of Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI
disntr: Trevin Wax at The Gospel Coalition says that Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict) is the only Christian theologian of the last century that rivals Karl Barth.
disntr: Trevin Wax at The Gospel Coalition says that Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict) is the only Christian theologian of the last century that rivals Karl Barth.
SissyWillis: "Joseph Ratzinger, was truly a prophet of our time, a magisterial voice, and one of the greatest minds of the last centuries." The Pope who loved cats & Mozart.
Evan_Focus: OPINION: Despite his being “conservative” and “traditional,” his was a well-rounded Roman Catholic orthodoxy that had no place for the “five solas” of evangelical faith. By Leonardo De Chirico.
BPurger: Certainly the high road to truth and goodness is not a comfortable one. It challenges man. Nevertheless, retreat into self, however comfortable, does not redeem. The self withers away and becomes lost.
FAITHmag: Upon the occasion of the funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in Rome, Bishop Earl Boyea of Lansing offers this personal appreciation of the late Joseph Ratzinger RIP:
Edtechview: When Father Joseph Ratzinger Predicted the Future of the Church
AdoremusSociety: In 1995, Adoremus Bulletin was founded by three people—two priests and a laywoman. There was also a fourth figure who was instrumental in launching Adoremus—Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger...
CeleriMike: Just a reminder to you disciples of the modernist Joseph Ratzinger. He enabled all these vile, effeminate sodomites; Even appointing this apostate kweer to Archbishop. Salacious and Sacrilegious: ‘Cardinal’ Marx Opens Museum Exhibit ‘Damned Lust’ –
bishopscmc: “Everything belongs to God, but to Man is given the freedom to say 'yes' or 'no'. Love's free 'yes' is the only thing for which God must wait.”
(Joseph Ratzinger)
CatholicArena: A conference on Pope Benedict XVI's message about the Dictatorship of Relativism will take place this coming Friday in Dublin.
Speakers include Fr. Vincent Twomey, moral theologian and former student of Joseph Ratzinger.
OldRomanTV: “Conscience and Truth” by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger – Catholic World Report
thisnolaguy: The head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under John Paul II was Joseph Ratzinger who would later become Pope Benedict XVI.
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247Catholic: “Conscience and Truth” by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
cworldreport: Certainly the high road to truth and goodness is not a comfortable one. It challenges man. Nevertheless, retreat into self, however comfortable, does not redeem. The self withers away and becomes lost.
BillyBall3: Joseph Ratzinger, one of the most intelligent men of the 20th century, treated Liberation Theology seriously and critiqued it like a real intellectual movement. This dude wants it to be slavishly propped up despite it being a dated relic from the 70s.
BillyBall3: Again, these people see the world in a fake dichotomy that smart people, like Joseph Ratzinger, didn't. So that's why he could read, critique, and ultimately ignore Liberation Theology as irrelevant, which outside of second rate academics in the United States, it now is.
Edwin7Dean: “We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognise anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires."
- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (2005)
catholicedu312: What is the Ratzinger Syndrome? The theological academic peritus named Joseph Ratzinger who attended the Second Vatican Council had a different outlook than the man who became Benedict XVI. Upon leaving Academia, confronted by pastoral realities, Ratzinger started…2/
catholicedu312: Who knows what God has in store for my former Fanonesque friend, who, like Joseph Ratzinger, had an awakening. 4/4
sanojthomas_: but the Church of faith. She may well no longer be the dominant social power to the extent that she was until recently; but she will enjoy a fresh blossoming and be seen as man’s home, where he will find life and hope beyond death.
—Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
ezeaniekwekizi: (cf. Joseph Ratzinger, "God and the World:A Conversation with Peter Seewald", Ignatius: 2002, pg. 52-53)
dietrich15dmm: A Living Sacrifice: Liturgy and Eschatology in Joseph Ratzinger ESM4DFQ
ChurchLifeND: “The goal of creation is the covenant . . . . The goal of worship and the goal of creation as a whole are one and the same—divinization, a world of freedom and love.”
--Joseph Ratzinger
sanojthomas_: above all no untruth, that in Israel’s memory Egypt appears as the house of slavery, as the place of lack of freedom. Only the truth makes us free.”
- Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
TreadmillRaver1: I do however accept the statement/reference by Joseph Ratzinger qua author of the book Jesus of Nazareth regarding the authority of the Vatican II statement by one of the sub groups within the Ecumenical Council that composed a written document given approbation of the Council
RichardGrablin: Joseph Ratzinger, Salt of the Earth, pp. 176–177:
"I am of the opinion, to be sure, that the old rite should be granted much more generously to all those who desire it. It’s impossible to see what could be dangerous or unacceptable about that."
MichaelStahlke: The article he is responding to is also bad. It is Adrian Vermeulle’s one thousandth article on why Joseph Ratzinger should be the eternal emperor of America
Bruce4077: “When the freedom to be creative becomes the freedom to create oneself, then necessarily the Maker is denied…”
-Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger (12-21-2012)
cornerstonforum: Today’s prize for the combination of breadth and depth goes once again to Joseph Ratzinger, whose 1985 analysis of our predicament is as succinct as it is prescient and profound.
newsy233: Bishop Joseph Pfeiffer Cardinal Ratzinger at Judgement time of Death Maa...
sanojthomas_: of human knowledge, nor is it a concept that would put the thing within the grasp of the human mind.”
― Joseph Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity, Ignatius Press, 2004.
ThinkingFaith: The key to Pope Benedict’s faith in God was relationship; and the crucial relationship had always been, for him, his relationship with Jesus Christ. His last day as pope was 28 February 2013.
FXMC1957: 28 February 2013. Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), became the first Pope to resign since 1415. He became Pope in 2005 after John Paul II’s death. He had been suffering from poor health at the time of his resignation and felt unable to continue in his role.
leonardgfinn: "To regard Scripture as mystery, as the rabbis had already done, means within the horizon of Paul’s thought to regard it christologically, as a complex ensemble of references to Christ." - Joseph Ratzinger
deanofnewport: One of the things I love about cathedrals is the wonderful people you meet. This evening I met a former student of Hans Küng and Joseph Ratzinger (later Benedict XVI). Her verdict - the students loved Küng but didn’t like Ratzinger, then she didn’t think he liked students either.
ImitareChristum: Who has more authority than Ratzinger on Vatican II interpretation?
"If it is desirable to offer a diagnosis of [Gaudium et spes] as a whole...it is a revision of the Syllabus of Pius IX, a kind of counter-syllabus..."
-Joseph Ratzinger, Principles of Catholic Theology
sanojthomas_: “Everything belongs to God, but to Man is given the freedom to say 'yes' or 'no'. Love's free 'yes' is the only thing for which God must wait.”
—Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Introduction to Christanity
popmonkph: When there is no longer anything worth dying for, even life itself is no longer worth living.
-Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI)
sanojthomas_: but the Church of faith. She may well no longer be the dominant social power to the extent that she was until recently; but she will enjoy a fresh blossoming and be seen as man’s home, where he will find life and hope beyond death.
—Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
akd3k: Saudades Joseph Ratzinger
MEmerson81: "The forty days of Jesus' fast in the desert recall, first, the forty days that Moses spent fasting on Mount Sinai, until he was allowed to receive the word of God, the sacred tablets of the covenant." -Pope Benedict XVI (then Joseph Ratzinger)
CotoBlogzz: Theological aesthetics has been around since the early days of the Church. Notable theologians & philosophers addressing the subject include Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas, Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Barth, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Joseph Ratzinger,
sanojthomas_: God’s power to take the initiative by intervening, as he is always able to do."
- Joseph Ratzinger, Peter Seewald, 'God and World: A Conversation with Peter Seewald', Ignatius Press (2002).
NCRegister: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the answer to the recent question of the president of the Central Committee of German Catholics on women’s role in the Church…
NCRegister: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the answer to the recent question of the president of the Central Committee of German Catholics on women’s role in the Church...
sanojthomas_: Son. We receive it when we approach the Son so much that we feel his breath, so much that we allow Jesus to fly over us (Gv 20,19-23)
—(Joseph Ratzinger - from "The God of Jesus Christ")
FeserEdward: 1/4 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger: “That which previously was considered most holy – the form in which the liturgy was handed down – suddenly appears as the most forbidden of all things, the one thing that can safely be prohibited…
Saint_Patrick95: ✝️✨️✝️✨️✝️✨️✝️✨️✝️✨️
"The One
who has Hope...
Lives Differently"
- Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger...
Pope Benedict XVI
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firstthingsmag: Joseph Ratzinger’s engagement with the liberation theologians, though caricatured by the press as some kind of inquisition, in fact was a model of this detoxifying process.
