See these online texts and ebooks (I) by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI and (II) about him and his thought, previously indexed on the Project.
I. Texts and ebooks by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI:Continue reading →
“The Liberty of the Church: Source, Scope and Scandal”, by Professor Patrick McKinley Brennan (2013). Working Paper Series. 188. Forthcoming in Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues (2013). Available in pdf format on this page of the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law and linked by Expert Gallery Press . The text, numbered as Villanova University School of Law Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 2013-3062, is also available at Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
“The Message on the Media: Seventy Years of Catholic Social Thought on Social Communication”, by James Caccamo, Josephinum Journal of Theology, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer/Fall 2008): pp. 390-426. May be read online or downloaded in pdf format at Academia.edu.
“Do not, then, be afraid… [W]hat I have said to you under cover of darkness, you are to utter in the light of day; what has been whispered in your ears, you are to proclaim on the house-tops. … [W]hoever acknowledges me before men, I too will acknowledge him before my Father who is in heaven; and whoever disowns me before men, before my Father in heaven I too will disown him” (St. Matthew x, 26-27, 32-33)
Documents of the Maronite Patriarchal Synod of 2003-2004. May be read online through this index of documents on Maronite Heritage (which also contains an Introduction by Archbishop Youssef Bechara of Antelias and a Preface by His Beatitude and Eminence Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir (+), Patriarch of Antioch and the Entire East, Maronite Church)
“Fundamental Politics: What We Must Learn From the Social Thought of Benedict XVI”, by Dr. Thomas R. Rourke, Communio, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Fall 2008): pp. 432-450. Available in pdf format through this page of Communio.
Thinking Together about the Common Good: The Political Implications of Thomas Aquinas’s Theory of Conscience, by Dr. Angela Concetta Miceli. LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 252 (2013). Available in pdf format on this page of LSU Digital Commons.
“The Indirect Mission of the Church to Politics”, by Dr. Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., Villanova Law Review, Vol. 52, No. 2 (2007): pp. 241-252. Available in pdf format on this page of Villanova University.
“The Popes and the Order of Culture: Leo XIII to Benedict XVI”, by Dr. Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. Delivered as the Archbishop Gerety Lecture, Seton Hall, January 26, 2006. Available in pdf format at Seton Hall University.
“I desire, therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men: For kings, and for all who are in high station, that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life, in all piety and chastity. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God, our Saviour, Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (I Timothy ii, 1-4)
“Population Conference Draft Document Criticized” by Saint John Paul the Great (Pope John Paul II), Vatican, March 18, 1994. May be read online on this page of Catholic Culture.org, which describes it as thus:
“Talk given by Pope John Paul II during a March 18 meeting at the Vatican with Nafis Sadik, executive director of the U.N. Fund for Population Activities. The Pope criticizes a final draft document prepared for the September U.N. International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt.”
“Cultural Challenges to Faith: A Reflection on the Dynamics of Modernity”, by Rev. Paul O’Callaghan, Ph.D. [Professor of Theological Anthropology at Pontificia Università della Santa Croce], Church, Communication and Culture, Volume 2, Issue 1 (2017): pp. 25-40. May be read online and available in pdf format through this page of Church, Communication and Culture at Taylor & Francis Online.
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The Person and the Common Good, by Jacques Maritain, translated by John J. Fitzgerald (New York: Charles Scribner’s sons, 1947). May be read online through this page of the Jacques Maritain Center.
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