In four superb homilies and a concluding essay, Joseph Ratzinger, provides a clear and inspiring exploration of the Genesis creation narratives. While the stories of the world’s creation and the fall of humankind have often been subjected to reductionism of one sort or another—literalists treat the Bible as a science textbook whereas rationalists divorce God from creation—Ratzinger presents a rich, balanced Catholic understanding of these early biblical writings and attests to their enduring vitality.

These volumes are an ideal companion to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Begin with an introduction written by Catechism editor Christoph Cardinal Schönborn and then-cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who coauthored this introduction to offer valuable insights on how to read and study the Catechism. Use The Companion for reference as you study. Filled with more than 3,600 of these references extending from the ancient Church to the present day, The Companion is a handy one-volume reference library that arranges all texts and Scripture passages according to the paragraphs of the Catechism in which they are referred. Anyone involved in in teaching, understanding, and implementing the Catechism will find these volumes indispensable.

Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, is one of the most revered Catholic scholars, theologians, teachers, and authors of our time. His profound treatment of Christianity's basic truths combines a spiritual outlook with a deep knowledge of scripture, history, and theology. The Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI Collection contains fifteen volumes that provide the basic tenets of Catholic theology, dogma, and practice. Though some of the volumes were written prior to his papacy, they are still equally as significant and relevant to the Christian faith today.

For nearly two thousand years, popes have communicated to the world primarily through their letters. In the pre-modern world, the papal chancery turned out tens of thousands of letters a year. On occasion, a letter dealt with broad concerns and was intended to circulate through the churches of a given region. Such letters became known as encyclicals. In the modern period, papal encyclicals have become the primary medium through which the papacy exercises its teaching office. Through them, the popes address theological topics of especially timely concern, applying Christian doctrine to the immediate circumstances of the day.

Why was Jesus rejected by the religious leaders of his day? Who was responsible for his death? Did he establish a church to carry on his work? How did Jesus view his suffering and death? How should we? And, most importantly, did Jesus really rise from the dead and what does his resurrection mean? The story of Jesus raises many crucial questions.

Verbum Domini, issued by Pope Benedict XVI, is an apostolic exhortation discussing the Catholic approach to the Bible. Exploring both theological foundations concerning the Word of God and practical applications that allow our Scripture study to affect our mission as the Church, Verbum Domini is a beautiful discussion of the necessity of Scripture in our daily lives.

The Verbum 5 Legacy Libraries reintroduce the classic libraries of Verbum 5. This library is offered without features and datasets, making it the perfect standalone collection of resources to help grow your library with study Bible notes, Bible dictionaries, devotionals, and a few key commentaries. The Verbum 5 Starter Legacy Library provides essential resources for anyone just getting started with serious Bible study.

The Minor Writings of Pope Benedict XVI collection (19 vols.) contains the official pontifical writings, speeches, homilies, and letters of Pope Benedict XVI. These volumes, compiled and built by Logos Bible Software, contain the Holy Father’s teachings from 2005 to 2013 and are not available in this chronological digitized format anywhere else. Each Sunday homily, apostolic and public letter, and homily before and after the Angelus has been assembled in these volumes.

The Apostolic Constitutions and Exhortations of John Paul II and Benedict XVI (51 vols.) contains the most important writings of the two pontiffs, next to their encyclical letters. The papal office holds the highest teaching authority in the Catholic Church, and the popes realize this office through a number of channels and through the promulgation of a variety of documents. The most famous of these are the papal encyclical letters, which express the pope’s mind normally on matters of faith and morals. Apostolic exhortations often concern similar topics but do not define doctrine and are normally directed at encouraging certain groups within the Church to certain activities. In recent decades apostolic exhortations have most often been issued at the conclusion of synods of bishops and have served as the popes’ summations and interpretations of those synods’ conclusions. Apostolic constitutions, however, are more juridical in nature. They are formal papal decrees and carry the highes...

Expand your understanding of Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, with this diverse collection of his writings, dialogues, meditations, and memories. As one of the most revered Catholic scholars, theologians, teachers, and authors of our time, Ratzinger’s profound treatment of Christianity combines a spiritual outlook with a deep knowledge of Scripture, history, and theology. This collection integrates moving biographical materials with his more traditional theological works. Study his papal catechesis for the Year of Faith as Benedict XVI, follow his debates with philosopher Jürgen Habermas, and enjoy poignant photographs of his close relationship with John Paul II and their travels during that pontificate. This well-rounded collection gives you greater insight on the man who has so greatly impacted the theology of the modern Catholic Church.

Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, writes about the Council from the experience of one who was there—one who took part as an official peritus, or expert, in the work of Vatican II. Regarded as one of the outstanding young theologians to emerge from the conciliar period, the author mirrors in his observations here his intimate familiarity with the theological issues discussed, the positions taken, and the battles fought.

One of Cardinal Ratzinger’s most important and widely read books, this volume is a revised second edition with an improved translation and an in-depth 20-page preface by the Cardinal. As he states in the preface, since this book was first published over 30 years ago, many changes and significant events have occurred in the world, and in the church.

Considered by Ratzinger devotees as his greatest work on the liturgy, this profound and beautifully written treatment of the “great prayer of the church” will help readers rediscover the liturgy in all its hidden spiritual wealth and transcendent grandeur as the very center of our Christian life.

Two great theologians endeavor to recover the centrality of Marian doctrine and devotion for the contemporary Church, offering a spiritually rich approach to Mariology that brings into new relief the Marian contours of ecclesial faith. Ratzinger and von Balthasar show that Mary is both the embodiment of the Church, and the mother who cooperates in giving birth to the Church in the souls of believers. At once profound and yet readily accessible, Mary: The Church at the Source offers a theologically balanced and biblically grounded presentation of traditional and contemporary thought on Marian doctrine and spirituality.

The Verbum 6 Legacy Libraries reintroduce the classic libraries of Verbum 6. This library is offered without features and datasets, making it the perfect standalone collection of resources to help grow your library with study Bible notes, Bible dictionaries, devotionals, and a few key commentaries. The Verbum 6 Starter Legacy Library provides essential resources for anyone just getting started with serious Bible study.

Principles of Catholic Theology is a collection of articles and talks written around a central theme: the fundamental structure of Christianity. This volume discusses Catholicism, the inter-relationship of other forms of Christianity, and the features that distinguish Catholicism from other Christian theologies.

The Verbum 5 Legacy Libraries reintroduce the classic libraries of Verbum 5. This library is offered without features and datasets, making it the perfect standalone collection of resources to help grow your library with practical commentary sets and even includes a few key texts to get you started with basic Greek and Hebrew study.

God is—and the Christian faith adds: God is as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three and one. This is the very heart of Christianity, but it is so often shrouded in a silence born of perplexity. Has the church perhaps gone one step too far here? Ought we not rather leave something so great and inaccessible as God in his inaccessibility?

The Second Vatican Council says, “We ought to try to discover a new reverence for the Eucharistic mystery. Something is happening that is greater than anything we can do. The liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the church is directed; it is the font from which all her power flows.”

The Verbum 6 Legacy Libraries reintroduce the classic libraries of Verbum 6. This library is offered without features and datasets, making it the perfect standalone collection of resources to help grow your library with practical commentary sets and even includes a few key texts to get you started with basic Greek and Hebrew study.

Called to Communion is a book of wisdom and insight that explains how providential the trials are through which the Catholic Church is now passing. All these themes, received from Cardinal Ratzinger, bring new clarity and depth.

Study the significance and impact of the Second Vatican Council with the Paulist Press Vatican II Collection. Modern scholars and theologians, including Pope Benedict XVI and Maureen Sullivan, examine the contemporary Church in light of Vatican II. Trace the theological developments that led to that pivotal moment in Church history. Assess what work remains unfinished and how the modern Church can continue the liturgical reforms of the Council. Together these volumes provide insight into the Council’s influence on theology, spirituality, and Catholic social thought.

In this beautifully illustrated book, Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) gives us profound meditations on what our life in Christ should be like as it is lived through the various seasons and feasts of the liturgical year. This book also includes thoughts on other spiritual and secular themes such as the true nature of peace, why it is difficult for so many to experience joy, the relationship between spirit and matter, vacation and rest, etc. These inspiring insights from the man who became pope, show how Joseph Ratzinger’s deeply spiritual and theological experience, together with his wide literary and cultural interests are a gift to the Church in the modern world. Here is a shepherd leading the faithful entrusted to his care to deep springs of refreshing, life-giving water.

Creeds, Confessions, and Declarations are all central documents for the Christian faith. Intended for distilling the essential beliefs of Christianity, for education, and spiritual practice, these historic documents of the Christian Church open up insight into the tradition and Orthodox teachings of Christianity. Imagine studying Romans 6—and then seeing if it came up at the Council of Nicea, Trent, or the Synod of Dort. Imagine seeing how the Augsburg Confession, the Arminian Confession, and the Schleitheim Confession use 1 Peter 5. And then imagine Luther’s Catechism, the Heidelberg Catechism, the Westminster Catechism, and the Orthodox Catechism all showing you their use of Genesis 2.

Written over three decades ago, Cardinal Ratzinger’s profound treatise on the true meaning of Christian brotherhood is perhaps even more timely and important now as a clear statement on the biblical grounds for cooperation among believing Christians. In treating Christian brotherhood from the perspective of salvation history, Ratzinger opens up the meaning of both the Old and New Testament in this most essential area. After establishing the distinctively Christian sense of brotherhood (vis-á-vis Judaism, Hellenism, Stoicism, the Enlightenment, and Marxism), he shows how fraternal charity can only be perfected through God’s fatherhood, Christ’s divine sonship, and our brotherhood in Christ.

Ratzinger, one of the key persons responsible for the compilation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, offers new insights on the catechetical character and Biblical foundation of the worldwide bestselling Catechism that has had such a positive response from ordinary Catholics across the globe. But he acknowledges that the response of many theologians and “professional religionists” has been negative toward the Catechism. He says that if theologians don’t want to be “shut out” of this worldwide development of sensus fidei and lose touch with the common Catholic, they will have to engage the Catechism positively. The main purpose of this book is to offer an invitation to this changed approach to the Catechism. He wants people to see, as he shows here, how the Catechism is an excellent teaching tool that responds to man’s deepest questions about the meaning of life, how to live a good life, and how to attain happiness in this life and in eternal life. He shows how the Catechism...

St. Bonaventure’s love of wisdom was intimately related to his love of God—so much so that he is called the “Seraphic Doctor” for the ardor that accompanied his great mind. What does this sort of mind have to say about the history of man, a topic long dear to Christian thinkers, especially owing to the Incarnation and the expectation of the Second Coming? In this academic treatise, then-Father Ratzinger, a young university professor, delves into the work of the Seraphic Doctor to come to a critical and yet appreciative understanding of the theological meaning of history in his work. Particularly interested in Bonaventure’s Collationes in Hexaemeron, the study sets the saint’s thought against his remote and immediate predecessors, as well as his medieval contemporaries.

This 21-volume upgrade for the Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI Collection (14 vols.) expands your Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict library with his essential writings on the Church, Bonaventure, Mary, Europe, and Christian virtues. These volumes cover a wide range of topics relevant today. Pulled from interviews, public teachings, and writings published before he was made pope, these volumes bring together a collection of Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’s writings at an amazing discount. With works written alongside such renowned German theologians as Heinz Schürmann and Hans Urs von Balthasar, this collection is filled with both scholarly, theologically-rich material and practical, accessible devotional writing. Discover these timeless teachings for the Catholic Church, for Christendom, and for the entire world.

Daughter Zion explores the biblical witness to the Church’s Marian dogmas—Mary’s role as Mother of God, her virginity, the Immaculate Conception, and her Assumption into heaven. Cardinal Ratzinger examines how these beliefs are linked to the Church’s faith in Jesus Christ. Far from competing with the truth about Christ, the Church’s Marian beliefs uphold and underscore that truth. Mary’s role in salvation, according to Cardinal Ratzinger, was anticipated in the Old Testament. She was prefigured in Eve, the Mother of the Living; in the holy women of the Old Testament, such as Sarah, Hannah, Deborah, Esther, and Judith; and in the prophetic image of the daughter Zion. Cardinal Ratzinger also considers Mary’s place as the embodiment of created wisdom, who faithfully received the Uncreated Wisdom of the Word of God in the Incarnation. Daughter Zion avoids the extremes of ignoring the biblical foundation for Marian doctrine on the one hand and fundamentalistic proof-texting on the ...

Theologian Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) and Jürgen Habermas—philosopher and Neo-Marxist social critic—discuss and debate aspects of secularization, and the role of reason and religion in a free society. Both men insist that proponents of secular reason and religious conviction should learn from each other, even as they differ over the particular ways that mutual learning should occur. These insightful essays are the result of a remarkable dialogue between the two men, sponsored by ...