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‘In the Beginning …’: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall is unavailable, but you can change that!

In four superb homilies and a concluding essay, Joseph Ratzinger, provides a clear and inspiring exploration of the Genesis creation narratives. While the stories of the world’s creation and the fall of humankind have often been subjected to reductionism of one sort or another—literalists treat the Bible as a science textbook whereas rationalists divorce God from creation—Ratzinger presents a...

1 After the end of the bishops’ synod that was devoted to the subject of the family, we were discussing in a small group possible themes for the next synod, and Jesus’ words at the beginning of Mark’s Gospel came to mind. These words summarize Jesus’ whole message: “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel” (Mark 1:15). One of the bishops reflected on these words and said that he had the impression that we had long ago actually
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