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 Pope Benedict XVI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ratzinger was briefly interned in a prisoner-of-war camp near Ulm and was repatriated on June 19, 1945.
Ratzinger offers an oath of submission at the September 1978 papal inauguration of John Paul I. Ratzinger is given a formal farewell as he leaves the Archdiocese of Munich to become the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on February 28, 1982.
Ratzinger became a professor at the University of Bonn in 1959; his inaugural lecture was on "The God of Faith and the God of Philosophy." In 1963 he moved to the University of Münster, where his inaugural lecture was given in a packed lecture hall, as he was already well known as a theologian.
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 Joseph Ratzinger, Sr. -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Joseph Ratzinger and his wife Maria had three children in all (the third being Professor Maria Ratzinger), of whom Joseph A. Ratzinger was the youngest.
Joseph Ratzinger, Sr., served in the (A state in southwestern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory) Bavarian (Click link for more info and facts about Landespolizei) Landespolizei for several years as a rural policeman.
The majority of media sources later made it very clear that Joseph Ratzinger, Sr., had never been a member of the (The political party founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power by Hitler in 1933) Nazi Party and had been known in the 1930s as an anti-Nazi sympathizer.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/joseph_ratzinger,_sr.htm   (500 words)

  
 Joseph Ratzinger
Ratzinger is largely opposed to the allowance of reforms after Vatican II to allow different cultures to have their own expression of the liturgy.
Ratzinger based his admonitions on the idea that “liturgies are 'formed through history,' not 'produced' (like a film) by professional specialists or curial potentates.” So he feels that any changes made to the liturgy should develop over time and not at the hands of a council.
Joseph Ratzinger begins his article, “The Ministerial Office and the Unity of the Church,” by saying that the ministerial office and the unity of the church point to “one of the key positions of mutual understanding in regard to Christian reality on the part of Catholic and Reformed Christians” (42).
www.shc.edu /theolibrary/resources/ratzinger.htm   (3747 words)

  
 Benedikt XVI. - Wikipedia
Joseph Ratzinger zum Erzbischof von München und Freising.
Ratzingers Bischofsmotto lautet: Cooperatores veritatis (lat, deutsch: Mitarbeiter der Wahrheit, nach 3 Joh,8).
Joseph Ratzinger war als Präfekt der Glaubenskongregation für die Ablehnung des Vatikans von Priesterehen, Befreiungstheologie (massiver Konflikt mit Leonardo Boff und Gustavo Gutiérrez), gleichgeschlechtlichen Lebenspartnerschaften, künstlichen Formen der Empfängnisverhütung, und - aus der Sicht seiner Kritiker - von pluralistischen Ansätzen in der Kirche und Forderungen nach Dezentralisation der Kirche mitverantwortlich.
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 ipedia.com: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Joseph Ratzinger is a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1981 Cardinal Ratzinger was appointed prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by Pope John Paul II, and was elected De...
In 1981 Cardinal Ratzinger was appointed prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by Pope John Paul II, and was elected Dean of the College of Cardinals in 2002.
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 Cover story: The Vatican’s enforcer
Ratzinger once expressed the point in typically pithy fashion: “Where there is no dualism, there is totalitarianism.” He meant that where the church does not offer an alternative value system, where it sells out to the state or the culture, it gives up its ability to protect freedom.
Ratzinger was the chief adviser for Cardinal Joseph Frings, the aging cardinal of Cologne, Germany.
Ratzinger then focused on Bonaventure’s conflict with the “Spiritual Franciscans.” That branch of the Franciscan movement had been inspired by the apocalyptic visionary Joachim of Fiore to expect a third age of history, an era of the Holy Spirit, in which the poor would be liberated and the rich torn down.
www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/041699/041699a.htm   (7871 words)

  
 Joseph Ratzinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
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Saint Joseph, Diocese of The City of St. Joseph, Missouri, was founded by Joseph Robidoux, a Catholic.
Joseph in Egypt Essay arguing that the Egyptian vizier Imhotep and the Biblical figure Joseph were the same man.
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 The Cardinal Ratzinger Fan Club: Ratzinger Online
Homily of the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, at the Mass for the Election of the Roman Pontiff.
Joseph Ratzinger at the Bishops Conference of the Region of Campania in Benevuto, Italy.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican's doctrinal gatekeeper, by Daniel J. Wakin.
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 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Joseph Ratzinger
Ratzinger, as prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, silenced dissident theologians and reiterated church teaching.
A Ratzinger candidacy could be opposed by reform-minded cardinals, although John Paul, by appointing nearly all of those who will vote for his successor, has put his conservative stamp on the body.
Ratzinger is known for silencing dissident theologians and reinforcing church teachings.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/04/13/joseph_ratzinger   (687 words)

  
 Books in Review: Salt of the Earth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Ratzinger demonstrates a broad grasp of the present ecclesial environment throughout the world and the cultural obstacles and opportunities vis-à-vis the new evangelization.
Seewald has Ratzinger run the gauntlet of what the latter terms "the canon of criticisms" against the Church, starting with her historical "errors" and ending with the celebrated modern points of contention, including everything from papal infallibility to contraceptives to women priests to abortion to priestly celibacy.
Ratzinger deems the rediscovery of this separation a positive contribution of the Enlightenment, the negative side being the subjectivization and privatization of religion.
www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9802/reviews/williams.html   (1454 words)

  
 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected new Pope
Ratzinger was chosen on the fourth ballot held by the 115 cardinals meeting to select a successor to Pope John Paul II.
Ratzinger, born on April 16, 1927, was ordained on June 29, 1951.
Ratzinger was head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the church's chief think-tank that has dominated discussions on sexual morality and birth control and prevented liberals from gaining ground.
www.rediff.com /news/2005/apr/19pope.htm   (348 words)

  
 Pope Benedict XVI/Cardinal Ratzinger
As Pope John Paul II's chief doctrinal officer and key advisor, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1981 to 2005.
Ratzinger and his brother Georg were ordained to the priesthood on June 29, 1951, in the Cathedral of Freising on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul.
Ratzinger became more widely known when, during the Second Vatican Council and at the age of 35, he was appointed chief theological advisor for the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joseph Frings, for the four-year duration of the Council.
www.ignatiusinsight.com /authors/cardinalratzinger.asp   (1733 words)

  
 Church Turns to Its Guardian of the Faith (washingtonpost.com)
VATICAN CITY, April 19 -- Joseph Ratzinger, a German-born cardinal and the Vatican's guardian of religious orthodoxy, was swiftly elected Tuesday by the College of Cardinals as the 265th leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church elected Germany's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new pope.
Ratzinger had been among John Paul's closest allies and served as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, one of the Vatican's most important posts.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A942-2005Apr19.html   (829 words)

  
 Card. Joseph Ratzinger's interventions
Joseph Ratzinger to the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (March 20, 2005)
Joseph Ratzinger on the occasion of the Commemoration Mass of the souls of the deceased Popes Paul VI and John Paul I (September 28, 2004)
Ratzinger at the beginning of the Concert of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk from Leipzig, for the 25th Anniversary of the Pontificate of John Paul II (October 17, 2003)
www.vatican.va /roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/doc_rat_index.htm   (433 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Joseph Ratzinger, Germany
In the name-dropping before the secret vote for the next pope, that of rigorously conservative German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is making the biggest buzz among those betting that cardinals will select an elderly, perhaps short-tenure pontiff after Pope John Paul II's 26-year run.
Ratzinger, who turns 78 today, is dean of the College of Cardinals.
A Ratzinger candidacy could be opposed by reform-minded cardinals, although John Paul, by appointing nearly all of those who will vote for his successor, has put his conservative stamp on the college.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A57840-2005Apr15?language=printer   (221 words)

  
 The Cardinal Ratzinger Fan Club: Homepage
This verse was cited by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger as one of his favorite in the book, Salt of the Earth: "I don't want to overreach myself, but I would say that this expresses the essence of what I consider to be my standard at this time." (p.
From 1981 - 2005, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was appointed head of the Catholic Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, whose mission is to "to promote and safeguard the doctrine on the faith and morals throughout the Catholic world" (John Paul II).
On April 19, 2005, Cardinal Ratzinger was elected by his fellow Cardinals to the throne of St. Peter, Bishop of Rome, Shepherd of the Holy Catholic Church.
www.ratzingerfanclub.com   (1357 words)

  
 BookkooB: Salt of the Earth - Joseph Ratzinger
Ratzinger did not look at the questions beforehand, and his responses, while not quite off-the-cuff, still have a spontaneity to them that is perhaps at odds with the more conservative image Ratzinger has come to bear.
Ratzinger reflects upon his strict upbringing as a child, his time as a child of a 'simple commissioner', and his growth in a devout Catholic family who tended to go to Mass twice on Sundays.
Ratzinger discusses the role of his office, the Sacred Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (once called The Inquisition), in the development of the 800+ page catechism for the Catholic church.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Cardinals choose Joseph Ratzinger, stalwart defender of conservative ...
Newly elected Pope Joseph Ratzinger of Germany waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican Tuesday.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, the church's leading hard-liner, is elected the new pope i in the first conclave of the new millennium.
Ratzinger, the oldest pope elected since Clement XII in 1730, has no apparent history of chronic health problems but has been hospitalized at least twice since the early 1990s, according to records and reports.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050419-1717-pope.html   (1762 words)

  
 Profile: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - Now Pope Benedict XVI :: International News :: Hyscience
Joseph Ratzinger was born in Marktl am Inn (on the Inn River), Germany, 16 April 1927, Holy Saturday, and was the first person baptized in the Easter Water blessed at the Easter Vigil.
Ratzinger was elected Archbishop of Munich and Freising by Pope Paul VI.
Cardinal Ratzinger was President of the Commission for the Preparation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and after 6 years of work (1986-92) he presented the new Catechism to the Holy Father.
www.hyscience.com /archives/2005/04/profile_cardina.php   (1212 words)

  
 pontiff Ratzinger info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
WFOR: The Pope - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany was named as the 265th pontiff before a crowd of tens of thousands at the Vatican.
Cardinal Ratzinger's Doctrinal Commentary - is the Supreme Pontiff and the College of Bishops in communion with him.
Sofia News Agency - novinite.com - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who was picked Tuesday by the Conclave to - 265th pope is the eighth pontiff from Germany in the history of Catholic Church.
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 Joseph ratzinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
"Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger is head of the Catholic Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, whose mission is to "to promote and safeguard the doctrin [...]
http://www.cnn.com/ "Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany was elected the 265th pontiff today by the College of Cardinals.
Cardinal Ratzinger spent some time fighting the "dictatorship of relativism," and weeding out challenges to challenges to strict Catholic teaching.
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 Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Although his name may be unfamiliar to many freemasons, Cardinal Ratzinger looms large in the history of anti-masonry for his unswerving condemnation of Freemasonry and his absolute prohibition on Roman Catholics being freemasons.
Born on 16 April 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Germany, Joseph Ratzinger was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Roman Curia on 25 November 1981 and Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia, Italy on 30 November 2002.
Cardinal Ratzinger is also the author of God Is Near Us: The Eucharist, The Heart of Life (Ignatius Press, Sept. 2003) in which he outlines the biblical, historical, and theological dimensions of the Eucharist.
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 CNS STORY: German theologian one of most respected, controversial cardinals
Cardinal Ratzinger will preside over the pre-conclave meetings of cardinals in Rome, set agendas for discussion and action, and be responsible for a number of procedural decisions during the conclave.
Some church officials at the Vatican think Cardinal Ratzinger could be elected to the papacy, particularly if the College of Cardinals is looking for a candidate who is older, experienced and dedicated to Pope John Paul's theological and ecclesial agenda.
A theological consultant to West German Cardinal Joseph Frings, he came to the Second Vatican Council as an expert or "peritus." At the council, he was said to have played an influential role in discussions among the German-speaking participants and gained a reputation as a progressive theologian.
www.catholicnews.com /jpii/cardinals/0501850.htm   (1311 words)

  
 ShoppingAisles.com - Book: The Spirit of the Liturgy by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger,Pope Benedict XVI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Considered by Ratzinger devotees as his greatest work on the Liturgy, this profound and beautifully written treatment of the "great prayer of the Church" will help readers rediscover the Liturgy in all its hidden spiritual wealth and transcendent grandeur as the very center of our Christian life.
Ratzinger draws on ideas East and West, from philosophical traditions in the church as well as the biblical witness (both Hebrew Scriptures and New Testament).
Ratzinger was a leading figure in the Second Vatican Council, but navigates an interesting line between some of the traditional elements and the more recent innovations in liturgical worship.
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 Amazon.com: Books: Many Religions, One Covenant: Israel, the Church, and the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Ratzinger recognizes that for this blessing to be realized, priority must be given to the relationship between Jews and Christians.
Cardinal Ratzinger, the new pope Benedict XVI, spent much of his career prior to being in the Vatican teaching theology and philosophy; after his move to the Vatican, he spent much of his time in the work of clarifying the theology of the church.
Ratzinger wrote, 'After Auschwitz the mission of reconciliation [of Jews and Christians] permits no deferral.' Very importantly, Ratzinger dispels the age-old idea of the collective guilt of the Jewish people for the death of Jesus, arguing that 'all sinners' participate in the problem of Jesus' death.
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