Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the End of the Millennium
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, well-known Vatican prelate and head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, gives a full-length interview to a secular journalist on a host of controversial and difficult issues facing Catholicism and Christianity at the end of the Millennium.
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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, well-known Vatican prelate and head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, gives a full-length interview to a secular journalist on a host of controversial and difficult issues facing Catholicism and Christianity at the end of the Millennium. Publishers Weekly In the same style as the 1985 bestseller The Ratzinger Report, this is a question-and-answer interview with the much-loved and much-maligned head of the Vatican's Congregation on the Doctrine of the Faith, a man who, after the pope, is the most high-profile Vatican official. Peter Seewald, a secular German journalist, pops the questions, and Ratzinger replies. This book is divided into three sets of questions: on Ratzinger's personal history; on the state of the Catholic church today; and, on the future of the church. Cardinal Ratzinger comes across in ways unlikely to be thoroughly pleasing either to the right or to the left. For example, his observations on the contemporary Roman Catholic liturgy will not be easily dismissed by Catholic liberals, and his pastoral sensitivity to the use of contraceptives will startle hardline conservative Catholics. Although Seewald seems to want Ratzinger to embrace a more reactionary Catholic conservatism, Ratzinger is unwilling to be caught doing so, and the book may both surprise and humble its readers, regardless of their ideological leanings. (Oct.)
Foreword7The Catholic Faith; Words and Signs9Pt. 1Personal BiographyBackground and Vocation41The Young Professor59Bishop and Cardinal81The Prefect and His Pope89Pt. 2Problems of the Catholic ChurchRome under Fire121On the State of the Church129The Situation in Germany154Causes of the Decline163The Mistakes of the Church170The Canon of Criticism181Pt. 3On the Threshold of a New EraTwo Thousand Years of Salvation History - and Still No Redemption?217Catharsis - A New Millennium - A Time of Testing228A "New Springtime of the Human Spirit" for the Third Millennium233Priorities of the Church's Development239Future of the Church - Church of the Future254The True History of the World276
\ Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly\ In the same style as the 1985 bestseller The Ratzinger Report, this is a question-and-answer interview with the much-loved and much-maligned head of the Vatican's Congregation on the Doctrine of the Faith, a man who, after the pope, is the most high-profile Vatican official. Peter Seewald, a secular German journalist, pops the questions, and Ratzinger replies. This book is divided into three sets of questions: on Ratzinger's personal history; on the state of the Catholic church today; and, on the future of the church. Cardinal Ratzinger comes across in ways unlikely to be thoroughly pleasing either to the right or to the left. For example, his observations on the contemporary Roman Catholic liturgy will not be easily dismissed by Catholic liberals, and his pastoral sensitivity to the use of contraceptives will startle hardline conservative Catholics. Although Seewald seems to want Ratzinger to embrace a more reactionary Catholic conservatism, Ratzinger is unwilling to be caught doing so, and the book may both surprise and humble its readers, regardless of their ideological leanings. (Oct.)\ \
