Tag Archives: Benedict XVI

Valentin Tomberg and the Holy Father on the Moral Energy of the Eucharist

Personal Memorandum: My book Cor Jesu Sacratissimum is going through unanticipated revision and expansion. The result is more delay than I would like, but what emerges has, I think, greater clarity, passion and strength. One thing that has hit me in this process is the need to speak of the Eucharist as clearly as possible – [...]
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Memory and Forgetting: From Liberal to Traditional

The journey from Liberal to Conservative … This is a subject on which I ponder a great deal, having made a long trek in my lifetime across a number of stations, from New Age to liberal Protestant to liberal Catholic to finally a Catholic who feels he must do all he can to defend the Tradition. Although [...]
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Book Review: The Rise of Benedict XVI: The Inside Story of How the Pope was Elected and Where He Will Take the Catholic Church by John L Allen Jr

Exceptional journalism to counter media stereotypes and worse ...
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Book Review: The Ratzinger Report – Joseph Ratzinger, Vittorio Messori

Recently here at this website, I quoted Valentin Tomberg saying: “The darkening which today is described as “the present crisis of the Catholic Church” can lead to the necessity for the solitary sons of the Church to hurry to the aid of the Holy Father, the most solitary of solitaries, in order to save the [...]
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Book Review: Salt of the Earth – Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

A Remarkable Book by a Remarkable Lover of Humanity ...
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