Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 1985

“The loss of the humility of being leads to the emergence of a perverse kind of humility, one in which man no longer likes himself, where he would rather just take himself out of the equation entirely. There is an increasing number of books being published with titles that call for the withdrawal of human beings from nature, the abolition of mankind.”

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Benedict XVI), The Divine Project: Reflections on Creation and Church, trans. Chase Faucheux, (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2022), 63