The Ratzinger Report Explained

The Ratzinger Report
Title Orig:Rapporto Sulla Fede
Translator:Salvator Attanasio
Graham Harrison
Author:Joseph Ratzinger
Language:English
Subject:Catholic Church
Publisher:Ignatius Press
Pages:197
Isbn:978-0-89870-080-0
Release Date:1985

The Ratzinger Report (Italian: Rapporto Sulla Fede) is a 1985 book consisting of a series of interviews collected over several days given by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to the Italian journalist Vittorio Messori. The book focuses on the state of the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council. The book is very critical of the "hermeneutic of rupture" associated with the liberal "spirit of Vatican II" within the Church. It has often been reread in the context of the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI in order to better understand the mind and the thinking of the former pontiff.[1] [2]

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  1. News: Komonchak . Joseph A. . At the Pope's Right Hand . The New York Times . December 22, 1985 . 19 February 2012.
  2. News: Greenwich . Andrew . Cardinal Ratzinger: defender of the Faith . AD2000 . May 1988 . 20 February 2012.