Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has returned to the Father’s House.
The Holy See Press Office announced that the Pope Emeritus died at 9:34 AM on Saturday morning in his residence at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, which the 95-year-old Pope emeritus had chosen as his residence after resigning from the Petrine ministry in 2013.
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John Paul II and Benedict XVI on Culture
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Benedict XVI: The Pope Emeritus
This excellent new documentary produced in Europe on the life and papacy of Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) shows us the great milestones of his life: renowned theology professor, prolific author, expert at the Second Vatican Council, longtime collaborator of John Paul II, and his pontificat...
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Benedict XVI: A Love Affair with the Truth
A compelling inside look at the life and times of Joseph Ratzinger and the challenging pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI. This biographical documentary covers his childhood, his rise within the Catholic Church, and the first few years of his papacy as the Vicar of Christ.
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The Year of Two Popes: The Election of Benedict XVI
2005 was a bittersweet year for the Catholic Church. The faithful were dealt a heavy blow with the loss of a great leader. But that pain was tempered with the ascension of Cardinal Ratzinger to the papacy. Witness the historical events as they unfolded on the world stage with the election of the ...
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Charity in Truth (Caritas in Veritate) by Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict's third encyclical, Charity in Truth (Caritas in Veritate), applies the themes of his first two encyclicals —love and hope (God Is Love, Saved in Hope) — to the world's major social issues. Drawing on moral truths open, in principle, to everyone (the natural law) as well as on the t...
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Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week by Pope Benedict XVI
For Christians, Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God, who died for the sins of the world, and who rose from the dead in triumph over sin and death. For non-Christians, he is almost anything else--a myth, a political revolutionary, a prophet whose teaching was misunderstood or distorted by his foll...
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Saved in Hope by Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI's second encyclical, Saved In Hope (Spe Salvi in Latin), takes its title from St. Paul, who wrote, "In hope we have been saved" (Rom 8:24). Benedict XVI continues a line of thought he began with his first encyclical, God is Love.
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Church Fathers by Pope Benedict XVI
Following his best selling book, Jesus of Nazareth, and his talks published in Jesus, the Apostles, and the Early Church, Pope Benedict's Church Fatherspresents these important figures of early Christianity in all their evangelical vitality, spiritual profundity, and uncompromising love of God. B...
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Light of the World by Peter Seewald and Pope Benedict XVI
Never has a Pope, in a book-length interview, dealt so directly with such wide-ranging and controversial issues as Pope Benedict XVI does in Light of the World. Taken from a recent week-long series of interviews with veteran journalist Peter Seewald, this book tackles head-on some of the greatest...
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Church Fathers and Teachers by Pope Benedict XVI
After meditating on the Apostles and then on the Fathers of the early Church, as seen in his earlier works Jesus, the Apostles and the Early Church and Church Fathers, Pope Benedict XVI devoted his attention to the most influential Christian men from the fifth through the twelfth centuries. In hi...
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A School of Prayer The Saints Show Us How to Pray by Pope Benedict XVI
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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 experience in prayer-from beginners to spiritually advanced-will be enriched by this spiritu...
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MOBI: A School of Prayer: The Saints Show Us How to Pray by Pope Benedict XVI
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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 experience in prayer-from beginners to spiritually advanced-will be enriched by this spiritu...
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Benedicto XVI: Papa Emérito
Este nuevo y excelente documental producido y filmado en Europa, nos relata la vida y papado del Papa Benedicto XVI (Joseph Ratzinger). Nos habla acerca de los grandes acontecimientos de su vida; su reconocimiento como profesor de teología, experto creador del Concilio Vaticano II, así como su co...
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Benedicto XVI: La aventura de la verdad
Una extraordinaria visión en profundidad de la vida de Joseph Ratzinger y del difícil pontificado de Benedicto XVI. Esta biografía recorre su infancia y juventud, su vocación sacerdotal, su carrera como profesor y sus años de cardenal en Roma hasta el Cónclave que le eligió Papa, así como los pri...
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Saint Paul by Pope Benedict XVI
St. Paul is one of the most important figures in Christian history. As Saul of Tarsus he vigorously persecuted Christianity, even collaborating in the death of Christianity's first martyr, Stephen. His encounter with the resurrected Jesus on the road to Damascus changed Paul's life, the Christian...
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Faith and the Future by Pope Benedict XVI
Increasingly, the future is becoming a theme for theological reflection. In the background we can detect a growing concern among many people for the future of faith. Does faith have any future at all, and, if so, where in all the confusion of today's trends will we discover its embryo?
But the p...