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Father Fessio on ‘Professor Ratzinger,’ the future Benedict XVI

January 4, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

Father Joseph Fessio with then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger during his 1999 visit to Ignatius Press / Dorothy Petersen and Eva Muntean

Denver, Colo., Jan 4, 2023 / 10:50 am (CNA).
As a young priest, Father Joseph Fessio, SJ, studied theology under… […]

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Benedict XVI: thinker, preacher, saint? Scholars and former students discuss legacy

January 1, 2023 Catholic News Agency 10

Benedict XVI holds his final general audience, Feb. 27, 2013. / Mazur/www.thepapalvisit.org.uk (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Denver, Colo., Jan 1, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI prompted his former students and other Catholi… […]

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The life, faith, and struggle of Joseph Ratzinger: An interview with Peter Seewald

January 1, 2023 Carl E. Olson 38

Note: Marking the death Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI on December 31st, CWR is reposting this interview, first posted on January 13, 2021. The veteran German journalist Peter Seewald first met Joseph Ratzinger nearly thirty years ago. […]

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“The best Christmas present is to be silent for a time with the Lord”

December 21, 2022 Jim Graves 8

Bishop William Byrne, 58, has served as the Bishop of the Diocese of Springfield, Massachusetts since 2020. He grew up in Washington, D.C., where he attended Catholic schools, and was ordained a priest for the […]

Books

To be deep in history is to cease to be Mormon: An interview with Jeremy Christiansen

December 6, 2022 Paul Senz 14

There is something remarkably engaging about conversion memoirs. Among Catholics, the conversion memoir has become a prominent book genre in its own right. This tradition goes back many centuries. Among them are Saint Augustine’s Confessions, […]

Books

Plumbing the depths of a dozen works of classic literature

November 26, 2022 Paul Senz 5

The rich literary patrimony of Western civilization can be daunting. Where to begin? Which books are truly great? Which works of literature have stood the test of time? Joseph Pearce’s most recent book is titled […]

Features

“Beauty is our guide”: An Interview with Dr. Glenn Arbery

November 24, 2022 Jesse Russell 3

Born in South Carolina, reared in Georgia, Glenn C. Arbery grew up as a Southerner and a Protestant. His reading of Flannery O’Connor as a freshman at the University of Georgia began his journey toward […]

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Major Archbishop Shevchuk: “Ukraine will say yes to a serious peace proposal”

November 23, 2022 CWR Contributors 3

(Kyiv, November 17, 2022) In his hands he holds the letter that Pope Francis just sent to him. “Once again the Pope expresses his affectionate closeness” to the “dear Ukrainian people”. And he invites us […]

Features

Infallibility and the limits of papal power: An interview Cardinal Gerhard Müller

November 20, 2022 CWR Contributors 20

Editor’s note: The following kath.net interview was posted originally on November 15, 2022, and appears here with kind permission of Lothar C. Rilinger and kath.net. English translation is by Frank Nitsche-Robinson. Vatican (kath.net) According to […]

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New Ignatius Press series focuses on unevangelized and uncatechized students

November 14, 2022 Paul Senz 6

Mark Brumley has worked at Ignatius Press since 1995, and has been President of the San Francisco-based publishing house since the early 2000s. He describes himself as a “double convert”, as he was largely unchurched […]

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