How can we best understand and handle what seem today to be incessant challenges to the faith from inside as well as outside the Church? Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger gave some helpful pointers in a ...

I almost missed the interview. Cardinal Ratzinger was sick the day of our appointment. When I arrived, I was asked whether I wanted to meet with the congregation's secretary. I agreed, figuring it was ...

In 1988, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger unsuccessfully sought changes to the Code of Canon Law in order to secure swifter dismissal of priests “guilty of serious and scandalous behavior,” according to ...

VATICAN CITY—Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, a strict doctrinal conservative who believes the church should fiercely resist the pressures of secularism, emerged from St. Peter's Basilica on ...