Through this consideration of sonship, Cardinal Ratzinger demonstrated that the Church’s dogma is never far from the page of Scripture. I mentioned earlier his assertion that “Catholic dogma … derives all its content from Scripture.”20 Elsewhere, he states that “dogma is by definition nothing other than an interpretation of Scripture.”21 Dogma is the Church’s infallible interpretation of the sacred text. Thus there is no contradiction, no opposition, between the Jesus of history to the Christ of