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This work features the most discussed topics of the life of the church, treated with unique frankness and depth by the church’s spiritual and theological leader. In this collection of essays, theologian Joseph Ratzinger, now Benedict XVI, tackles three major issues in the church today—the nature of the church, the pursuit of Christian unity, and the relationship of Christianity to the...

Shortly after the First World War, Romano Guardini coined a phrase that was soon winging its way through German Catholic circles: “A process of immense significance has begun: the Church is awakening in people’s souls.” Vatican II was the fruit of this awakening; it expressed in its documents and presented to the whole Church as a patrimony the knowledge that had matured through faith during the four decades from 1920 to 1960, which were so full of
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