We offer a remembrance of Benedict XVI published in the daily newspaper Avvenire, written by Monsignor Bruno Forte, Metropolitan Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto and member of the Scientific Committee of the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation: https://www.avvenire.it/chiesa/cosi-ratzinger-aiuta-gli-altri-a-scoprire-la-bellezza-di-dio_107265
We offer interviews with Don Roberto Regoli, conducted by:
Michał Kłosowski, Przyszłość pełna nadziei, in “Przewodnik Katolicki”, 25 february 2026: https://www.przewodnik-katolicki.pl/przyszlosc-pelna-nadziei-230942
and by Edgar Beltrán: ‘Christ presented without compromise’ - the legacy of Benedict XVI, in “The Pillar”, 28 february 2026: https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/christ-presented-without-compromise.
We publish here the presentation of Father Federico Lombardi, held on 17th April at the Theology Faculty of Niccolò Copernico University in Toruń, Poland. It was held at the beginning of the International Academic Conference entitled “Alla ricerca della Verità: da Niccolò Copernico a Benedetto XVI”.
The topic of the presentation was “Reason in search of the true: a discourse refused? 10 years on from the visit of Benedict XVI to La Sapienza University of Rome – a visit that never was”.
We offer our readers the speeches of Father Federico Lombardi, president of the Ratzinger Foundation, which were held during the presentations of the books written by the reporters Mimmo Muolo and Giovan Battista Brunori, on 3rd and 4th May 2017. Muolo is the author of the book “Il Papa del coraggio” (Àncora Editions, 2017). Brunori wrote “Benedetto XVI. Fede e profezia del primo Papa emerito nella storia” (Pauline Editions, 2017).
Read the speech of F. Lombardi on the book written by Mimmo Muolo
Read the speech of F. Lombardi on the book by Giovan B. Brunori
We offer our readers the speech of cardinal Kurt Koch - President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity - “Una sinfonia di amore e verità nella libertà. Joseph Ratzinger/Benedetto XVI testimone grato della fede pasquale”, held on 6th April in Rome during the event promoted by the Foundation in order to celebrate the 90th birthdaty of the emeritus Pope.
We offer our readers the original report in Portuguese, whose title is “Fé, razão e teologia”. It was written by Professor Mario de França Miranda S.J., who received the Ratzinger Prize in 2015, with the volume Cooperatores Veritatis. Scritti in onore del Papa emerito Benedetto XVI per il 90° compleanno (Vatican Publishing House, Vatican City 2017). The book collects the presentations written by the 13 scholars who received Ratzinger Prize from 2011 to 2016.
Introduction of father Federico Lombardi, president of the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation, to the book Cooperatores Veritatis. Scritti in onore del Papa emerito Benedetto XVI per il 90° compleanno (Vatican Publishing House, Vatican City 2017). The book collects all the presentations written by the 13 scholars who received the Ratzinger Prize from 2011 to 2016.
“Which eschatology for Jesus of Nazareth?” is the topic of the report made by cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council of Culture and member of the Scientific Committee of the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation on 26th November 2016 at the main hall of the Augustinian Patristic Institute of Rome, at the end of the International Symposium “Eschatology: analysis and perspectives”.
We offer our readers the introduction of Father Federico Lombardi, president of the Joseph Ratzinger - Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation, to the book 13 of the Opera Omnia of Joseph Ratzinger, published in German by Herder. The book collects some interviews to Cardinal Ratzinger and the interview-book "Light of the world" made with Peter Seewald during the pontificate.
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"Eschatology and holiness" is the topic of the report cardinal Angelo Amato - prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and president of the Scientific Committee of the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation - gave on 24th November 2016 at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross of Rome, at the beginning of the international Symposium "Eschatology: analysis and perspectives".
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We offer our readers the speech of the President of the Foundation, father Federico Lombardi, given during the presentation of the book “Servitore di Dio e dell’umanità – La biografia di Benedetto XVI” (Servant of God and Humanity: The Biography of Benedict XVI) by Elio Guerriero (Mondadori 2016), held in Rome on 27th Septemper 2016.
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Interview of Elio Guerriero to Benedict XVI, in the book “Servitore di Dio e dell’umanità. La biografia di Benedetto XVI” published by Mondadori (542 pages, 24 euros), anticipated by La Repubblica newspaper.
Presentation of Andrea Riccardi, historian and founder of the Community of St. Egidio, published on 28th June 2016 on Corriere della Sera.it, with the title “Ratzinger non è stato un carabiniere. Rivalutiamo un Pontefice travisato” (Ratzinger was not like a member of the police, we should reappraise a misrepresented Pope). The article portrays the figure of Benedict XVI on the 65th anniversary of his ordination, starting from the book by Roberto Regoli «Oltre la crisi della Chiesa», published by Lindau.
This is the answer Pope Francis gave to a journalist regarding the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on 26th June 2016 during the press conference on the flight to Rome at the end of the apostolic journey to Armenia (24 th - 26 th June 2016).
Extract of the book “Riforma nella continuità. Riflessioni a cinquanta anni dal Concilio Vaticano II suPresbyterorum Ordinis e Optatam Totius per la formazione sacerdotale e un fecondo ministero presbiterale” (Solfanelli, 2016), edited by Msgr. Agostino Marchetto and father Giovanni Parise. The text is in the second part of the book, dedicated to “Riforma nella continuità: Benedetto XVI maestro, pastore ed esempio della ‘corretta ermeneutica della continuità anche sacerdotale’.
We offer our readers an essay written by Joseph Ratzinger. It is taken from a conference held in 1960, when Ratzinger was full professor of Fundamental Theology at the University of Bonn. It was first published in Avvenire with the following title “La Comunione, sacramento della fraternità cristiana”, and it is the opening essay of the first of the two tomes of chapter 7 of the Opera Omnia. Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI’s work collects the writings on the Council and the Vatican Publishing House will publish them in autumn.
Presentation of the archbishop Georg Gänswein, prefect of the Pontifical Household and personal secretary of the emeritus Pope, held on 20th May 2016 in Rome, at the Pontifical Gregorian University, during the presentation of the book “Oltre la crisi della Chiesa – Il pontificato di Benedetto XVI” written by Roberto Regoli (Lindau editions).
Lesson given by Fr. Nicola Bux, councillor of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Causes of Saints, on 3rd May 2016 at the Augustinian Patristic Institute of Rome during the Master’s degree course “Joseph Ratzinger. Studies and Spirituality” on the following topic: “The liturgical Reform of the Second Vatican Council and its application according to Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI”.
Conference held by Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, on 12th April 2016 at the French Seminary of Rome. It was held in order to present the French edition of the 6th volume of the Œuvres Complètes of Joseph Ratzinger, whose title is Jésus de Nazareth – La figure et le message (Parole et Silence, Paris 2014).
Introduction of Father Nello Cipriani OSA, full professor at the Augustinian Patristic Institute of Rome, whose title is “Joseph Ratzinger’s Christological considerations”, held on 21st November during the presentation of book 6/2 of the Opera Omnia of Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI “Saggi di Cristologia” (Essays on Christology).
We offer our readers an article written by Father Robert P. Imbelli, priest of the archdiocese of New York and Emeritus Associate Professor of Theology at the Boston College (Massachusetts, USA), published on 26th March 2016 on The Catholic Thing website and by L’Osservatore Romano on 27th March 2016.
Preface Pablo Blanco Sarto – professor at the Theology Faculty of the University of Navarra – wrote for the book “O sacrifício da Palavra. O rito da Missa segundo Bento XVI” (Ecclesiae, 2016), in which the author comments on Benedict’s mystagogy of the Mass from the sign of the cross to the final blessing.
Presentation of Christian Schaller, awarded with the Ratzinger Prize in 2013. He describes the history and aims of the Papst Benedikt XVI Institute of Regensburg, in which he works as the vice director. It was held on 21st November 2015 at the Augustinian Patristic Institute of Rome, before the Ratzinger Prize was given.
Presentation of cardinal Albert Malcolm Ranjith, archbishop of Colombo (Sri Lanka), on the welcome and the perspectives of the first Encyclical of Benedict XVI in Asia during the International Symposium “Deus caritas est. Porta di Misericordia”, held on 19th-20th November 2015 at the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome.
Presentation of Father Romanus Cessario, Theology professor at Saint John’s Seminary of Boston, on the welcome and the perspectives of the first Encyclical of Benedict XVI in the United States and in Australia, held on 20th November 2015 at the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome, during the International Symposium “Deus caritas est. Porta di Misericordia”.
Presentation of cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, emeritus president of the Cor Unum Pontifical Council, on “The practice of Love”, held on 20th November 2015 at the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome, during the International Symposium “Deus caritas est. Porta di Misericordia”.
Presentation of Rino Fisichella, archbishop and president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization, on the following topic: "From Deus caritas est to Misericordiae vultus”, held on 20th November 2015 at the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome, during the International Symposium “Deus caritas est. Porta di Misericordia”.
Presentation of Msgr. Mariano Fazio on the welcome and the perspectives of the first Encyclical of Benedict XVI in Latin America, held on 19th November 2015 at the Lateran Pontifical University of Rome, during the International Symposium “Deus caritas est. Porta di Misericordia”.
Presentation of cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments on 19th November 2015 at the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome, during the international Symposium “Deus caritas est. Porta di Misericordia”, on the welcome and the perspectives of the first encyclical of Benedict XVI in Africa.
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Presentation of Reverend Ralph Weimann, professor of Dogmatics and Bioethics, on the foĺlowing topic: "Martyrdom as the supreme witness of love" on 19th November 2015 at the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome, during the International Symposium " Deus caritas est. Porta di Misericordia”.
Presentation of cardinal Gerhard L. Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It was held on 19th November 2015 at the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome, during the Symposium “Deus caritas est. Porta di Misericordia”, whose topic was “The perspective and the concept of truth in Deus caritas est”.
Presentation of reverend professor Vincent Twomey, emeritus professor of Moral Theology at St. Patrick’s College of Maynooth (Ireland). It was held on 19th November 2015 at the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome, during the Symposium “Deus caritas est. Porta di Misericordia”, whose topic was “The encyclical Deus caritas est in the context of the work of Joseph Ratzinger”.
Presentation of cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the Unity of Christians, held on 19th November 2015 at the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome, at the beginning of the International Symposium “Deus caritas est. Porta di Misericordia” whose topic was “Deus caritas est in the context of Pope Benedict’s pontificate”.
Report of professor Marcos Cantos, editor of the book Razón abierta. La idea de Universidad en J. Ratzinger / Benedicto XVI, published as a co-edition by UFV and BAC. The book analizes Pope Benedict's presentations about the university, along with the ones he did before his pontificate. The presentation of the book was held on 27th October 2015 at the Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid.
Presentation of Manlio Simonetti, Ratzinger’s prize 2011, on the critical edition of Saint Augustine’s Enarrationes in psalmos, made on 9th october 2015 for the opening of the academic year of the Augustinian Patristic Institute in Rome. It was published in L’Osservatore Romano on 8th october.
Intervention of Anthony Valle, “research fellow” at the Faculty of Theology of the Ave Maria University (USA), and winner of one of the ten grants given by the Foundation. The article, whose title is “Retrieving the christological core of Joseph Ratzinger’s communio ecclesiology”, is part of the volume “Proceedings of the international Symposium of Theology” (Dublin 2013), collecting the interventions of a Symposium dedicated to Ecclesiology of the Communion. The Symposium was celebrated in 2012 in Maynooth, Ireland, during the 50th Dublin International Eucharistic Congress, 50 years after the opening of the II Vatican Council.
Article published in the magazine Nouvelle Revue Théologique (october-december 2015), with the title “Homme et femme selon la Sagesse”, about the book “Homme et Femme. De la Genèse à l’Apocalypse. Textes, interprétations” by Yves Simoens (2014).
Introduction to the book Sufrimos por la paciencia de Dios – La teología de Joseph Ratzinger concentrada en un hápax legómenon de Benedicto XVI written by Andrés Francisco Di Ció and published by Agape Libros (Buenos Aires, 2015).
Bellezza, necessità dell’uomo is the title of the comment by the Italian Master Mario Leone on the speech Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI gave when he received the honorary doctorate. It was published by the newspaper Il Foglio on 7th July 2015.
Preface to the book by Giovanni Parise Presbiteri a gloria della Trinità – Elementi per una corretta ermeneutica della continuità sacerdotale. Studio in onore di Benedetto XVI (Aracne, 2015) by the archbishop Agostino Marchetto.
Interview by Mimmo Muolo to Marcello Semeraro, bishop of Albano, diocese where the Pontifical Palace of Castel Gandolfo is located. It was published in Avvenire on 19th April 2015, in the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the papal election of Benedict XVI.
“The teachings of Benedict XVI, a precious treasure for the Church”
Presentation of the book Benedetto XVI Servo di Dio e degli uomini, published by the Libreria Editrice Vaticana in the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the papal election of Joseph Ratzinger. The book was read by Christian Schaller, vice director of the Institut Papst Benedikt XVI of Regensburg and awarded with the Ratzinger Prize in 2013, on 20th April 2015 at the Campo Santo Teutonico of the Vatican City.
Conference of Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and editor of the Opera omnia of Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI, on 17th April 2015 at the Campo Santo Teutonico of the Vatican City, in the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the election of Benedict XVI.
“Der Primat Petri im Pontifikat von Benedikt XVI.”
The text is the opening essay by Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI of the book Gesù di Nazaret. Scritti di cristologia, second part of the volume VI of the Opera Omnia of Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI. The book will be published in the Italian translation by the Libreria Editrice Vaticana in November. The theme of the first part of the volume VI is the trilogy about Jesus by Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI (2007, 2011, 2013) and its subtitle is La figura e il messaggio (LEV 2014).
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Presentation by Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, at the College des Bernardins, Paris, on 25th of the coming out of the book “Jésus de Nazareth. La figure et le message” by Joseph Ratzinger- Benedict XVI (Œuvres Complètes, Parole et Silence 2015).
An editorial by Father Giorgio Zucchelli, director of “Il Nuovo Torrazzo”, a catholic weekly magazine of the diocese of Crema. It is about the Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation, whose brochure came out together with the magazine on Saturday 27th February 2015.
Presentation of cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for the Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, during the launch of the book by Guillaume Derville, Histoire, mystères, sacrements. Les sacrements de lʼinitiation chrétienne dans lʼoeuvre de Jean Daniélou. It was held on 12th February 2015 at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, during the Conference “Ratzinger and Daniélou and the mystery of history”.
Presentation of Jean-Louis Bruguès, archivist and librarian of the Holy Roman Church, at the beginning of the Congress entitled “Ratzinger and Daniélou and the mystery of history” (12th February 2015, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome).
The speech of Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It was held on 23rd January 2015 at the Alphonsian Academy of Rome, during the presentation of the book "Persona e comunione. La Prospettiva di Joseph Ratzinger" by Claudio Bertero.
Relation on the theology of the Trinity of Joseph Ratzinger, held on 1st October 2013 in Heiligenkreuz by the archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
This relation is the result of the research by Tamara Saeteros on Augustine of Hippo, through which she discovered that the theologian Ratzinger is the main contemporary interpreter of the Saint bishop.
Presentation held on 6th November 2014 at the Ratzinger Study Centre of Bydgoszcz in Poland, during the meeting “Challenges of multicultural societies. The social, religious, economical and educational aspects”.
Presentation held on 24th October 2014 at the Catholic University John Paul II of Lublin, during the presentation of the Polish edition of the second volume of the Opera Omnia by Joseph Ratzinger, Comprensione della rivelazione e teologiadellastoria in San Bonaventura.
Exclusive presentation for the website of the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation on the MastersSaint Augustine: studies and spirituality.
Presentation held on 5th June 2014 at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, during the study day “Journeys of the Popes between diplomacy and communication”.
Presentation held in Lugano, on 28th May 2014 during the roundtable “Biblical theology and ecclesial law”.
Presentation held in Lugano, on 28th May 2014 during the roundtable “Biblical theology and ecclesial law”.
