The Fathers of the Church
Pope Benedict's Church Fathers presents these important figures of early Christianity in all their evangelical vitality, spiritual profundity, and uncompromising love of God. Benedict tells the...
RATZINGER, Joseph
A School of Prayer: The Saints Show Us How to Pray
Prayer is essential to the life of faith. In this superb book, based on Pope Benedict's weekly teaching, he examines the foundational principles of the life of prayer. Believers of various backgrounds and...
Heart of the Christian Life
The celebration of the Eucharist, in which Jesus Christ becomes present, is the center of the Catholic faith. This volume brings together substantive texts of the Holy Father on the many aspects and...
The God of Jesus Christ: Meditations on the Triune God
The book is a collection of short but very deep and evocative meditations about God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. They are a good example of preaching with theological content and existential language....
Light of the World
An interview by journalist Peter Seewald to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. In this long interview, the Pope talks about the issues of Man, the world, and the Church, also making known some personal facets;...
To look on Christ: Exercises in Faith, Hope, and Love
This book is the collection of meditations preached in a spiritual retreat by then Cardinal Ratzinger, on the three theological virtues. Starting from an existential perspective, the author aims to change...
Jesus of Nazareth
The three volumes of this work by Benedict XVI don't need a big presentation. They can be described, following what the author explains, as a "life of Jesus" as the ones that Karl Adam or Romano Guardini...
Called to Communion
This is a book of wisdom and insight that explains how providential are the trials through which the Catholic Church is now passing. The need of the Papal Primacy to ensure Christian unity; the true meaning...
In the Beginning
These five superb homilles provide a clear and biblically based explanation of the first few chapters of the Bible. While the stories of the creation of the world and the fall of humankind have often given...
Truth and Tolerance
Your truth? No: the truth. And come with me to look for it. Yours, keep it … Christianity is not just another religion. It is a Life, a New Life that makes its way, and that makes everything with the power...