How the Catholic Church Can Restore Our Culture

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Year: 
2020
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EWTN Publishing
Year of publication: 
2020
Pages: 
224
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Type: Thought
Nothing inappropriate.
Requires prior general knowledge of the subject.
Readers with knowledgeable about the subject matter.
Contains doctrinal errors of some importance.
Whilst not being explicitly against the faith, the general approach or its main points are ambiguous or opposed to the Church’s teachings.
Incompatible with Catholic doctrine.
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The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators

Archbishop Georg Gänswein is secretary to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and also a close collaborator of Pope Francis. Through his work, he has first-hand information on various areas that have to do with the work of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. This book gathers a selection of texts of diverse character (interviews, homilies and conferences) in which he shows a lucid vision of countless situations in which the hierarchy of the Church is involved, without leaving out some of the most important problems that cross the recent history of the Church and society in our time, especially in the countries of the secularized West. Gänswein provides interesting data on the resignation of Benedict XVI and other aspects of his Pontificate.

Author: Juan Luis O'Dogherty, Poland
Update on: May 2021

Other review

Moral Assessment: 

Georg Gänswein, Archbishop, was secretary with Pope Benedict XVI and continues to work as private secretary to the Pope Emeritus. So many years together are evident in his writings and thoughts; there are continuous allusions to Cardinal Ratzinger and the papacy of Benedict XVI. The book gathers conferences, homilies and interviews in which he talks about Benedict XVI, but also introduce into his magisterium. 

The topics are very different, although the last conference gives the title to the original book in German, "The 11-S of the Catholic Church", because it is an aspect that repeats again and again, the need for personal holiness in the church to "demundanize", a term of Benedict XVI, as opposed to secularize, Europe and the West. For "the State must not become a religion, as we have just seen with horror in the so-called Islamic State. And neither should the state prescribe secularism to the people, as a supposedly neutral worldview". De-worlding" is a true renewal of faith, since rediscovering Christianity is not only believing in God, but living a personal relationship with Him".

There are many texts and different situations, but the Magisterium and thought of Benedict XVI are great.

Author: Francisco Forriol, Spain, 2022