22Jun

From Faith to Politics to Gnosticism

June 22, 2020 Gil Bailie

“When mystery no longer counts,” then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in a 1996 speech, “politics must be converted into religion.” When...

31May

False Prophet

May 31, 2020 Randy Coleman-Riese

In an earlier post Gil Bailie quoted from Hans Urs Von Balthasar suggesting Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s current role might...

06May

May 6, 2020 Gil Bailie

Benedict XVI Writing in the 1980s, Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) quoted a humorous couplet from the German...

23Mar

March 23, 2019 Gil Bailie

Joseph Ratzinger Before he became Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger summarized something written by the French mystic and Jewish writer...

19Jan

January 19, 2019 Gil Bailie

Here is something Joseph Ratzinger told an interviewer in 1996, before he became pope: “ . . . the church...