A translation of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s, “Introduction to Christianity,” has been made available in Russian for the first time. The book, written in 1968 by the man who is now Pope Benedict XVI, ...

Posting, as I’ve done recently, about spiritual autobiographies has got me thinking about one of the most influential books I’ve ever read in any genre: Pope Benedict XVI’s Introduction to ...

In 1968, Joseph Ratzinger, professor of theology at the University of Regensburg, wrote a modestly sized treatise on the Apostles' Creed called Introduction to Christianity. Its impact was anything ...

When I grow up, I want to be able to write an essay as lucid, thoughtful and incisive as that penned recently by Tracey Rowland, Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne ...

For many liberal Catholics, July 25, 1968, was the day the music died. Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae, published 40 years ago today, reaffirmed Catholicism’s absolute ban on birth control.

Pope Benedict XVI has often sympathized with those at different places on the journey of faith, including those who struggle to believe in God or don’t believe at all. Two examples come to mind. In ...

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), a Jesuit, anthropologist and prominent spiritual figure, experienced the powerful tensions of a complex twentieth century marked by wars, ideological ...