RATZINGER - BENEDETTO XVI

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Just a year after its foundation in 1990, Ratzinger joined the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg. Benedict chose to be known as " Pope emeritus" upon his resignation, and he retained this title until his death in 2022. It is time to reaffirm the importance of prayer in the face of the activism and the growing secularism of many Christians engaged in charitable work. Main article: Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI Benedict in a popemobile at his final Wednesday General Audience in St.

The encyclical was promulgated a month later in Latin and was translated into English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish. On 29 September 2005, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints issued a communiqué announcing that henceforth beatifications would be celebrated by a representative of the pope, usually the prefect of that Congregation. While a doctoral candidate in 1953, Ratzinger wrote his thesis The People and the House of God in St Augustine's Doctrine of the Church, [354] and therefore has a personal connection with the thought of this Doctor of the Church.

Honours and awards In 2013, one of Notre-Dame de Paris' new bells was named Benoît-Joseph after Benedict. Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the Cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble labourer in the vineyard of the Lord. Benedict wrote three encyclicals: Deus caritas est (Latin for "God is Love"), Spe salvi ("Saved by Hope"), and Caritas in veritate ("Love in Truth"). At the time of his resignation, Benedict had completed a draft of a fourth encyclical entitled Lumen fidei ("The Light of Faith"), [125] intended to accompany his first two encyclicals to complete a trilogy on the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and love.

In June 2009, he blamed outsourcing for the greater availability of consumer goods which lead to the downsizing of social security systems.

Other issues also prompted condemnations or revocations of rights to teach: for instance, some posthumous writings of Jesuit priest Anthony de Mello were the subject of a notification. In 1943, while still in seminary, he was drafted into the German anti-aircraft corps as Luftwaffenhelfer. If there is no human dimension, if Africans do not help, the problem cannot be overcome by the distribution of prophylactics: on the contrary, they increase it. Benedict's election as pope occurred in the 2005 papal conclave that followed the death of Pope John Paul II. From Pope John Paul II to Benedict XVI: an inside look at the end of an era, the beginning of a new one, and the future of the church.

During his time at Tübingen University, Ratzinger published articles in the reformist theological journal Concilium, though he increasingly chose less reformist themes than other contributors to the magazine such as Küng and Schillebeeckx. Ratzinger became a professor at the University of Bonn in 1959, with his inaugural lecture on "The God of Faith and the God of Philosophy". Benedict, in August 2015, submitted a handwritten card to act as a testimony to the cause of canonization of Pope John Paul I.It is the first encyclical to be published since the Vatican decided to assert copyright in the official writings of the pope. As pope, one of Benedict's main roles was to teach about the Catholic faith and the solutions to the problems of discerning and living the faith, [104] a role that he could play well as a former head of the Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. On 11 February 2013, Benedict announced his resignation, citing a "lack of strength of mind and body" due to his advanced age.

In his first encyclical, Deus caritas est, he said that a human being, created in the image of God who is love, can practice love: to give himself to God and others ( agape) by receiving and experiencing God's love in contemplation. Sacramentum caritatis (The Sacrament of Charity), signed 22 February 2007, was released in Latin, Italian, English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Polish. Biographer Andrea Tornielli suggested that Cardinal Ratzinger had wanted to take action against Maciel but that John Paul II and other high-ranking officials, including several cardinals and the Pope's influential secretary Stanisław Dziwisz, prevented him from doing so. In March 2012, he stated that heterosexual marriages should be defended from "every possible misrepresentation of their true nature". As the Allied front drew closer to his post in 1945, he deserted back to his family's home in Traunstein after his unit had ceased to exist, just as American troops established a headquarters in the Ratzinger household.Apostolic Journey to Cologne: Vigil with youth at Marienfeld area (August 20, 2005) | Benedict XVI". Benedict was succeeded by Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who took the papal name of Francis on 13 March 2013. Thus, in his book Jesus of Nazareth, his main purpose was "to help foster [in the reader] the growth of a living relationship" with Jesus Christ. Struck by the cardinal's distinctive garb, he announced later that day that he wanted to be a cardinal.