Benedict XVI: Christian Radical
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View ArticleSamuel Gregg: Benedict XVI, Hans Kung and Catholicism’s Future
New books from Pope Benedict XVI and Fr. Hans Kung, two theologians who worked as contemporaries and whose careers were nurtured on the same German soil, show them to be worlds apart in their...
View ArticleSamuel Gregg: Benedict XVI and the Irrelevance of ‘Relevance’
In a new analysis in Crisis Magazine, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg examines “the shifting critiques” of the pontificate of Benedict XVI including the latest appraisal that the world is losing...
View ArticleSamuel Gregg — Benedict XVI: God’s Revolutionary
The pope turns 85 today. On the website of Crisis Magazine, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg looks at this most prominent of “status-quo challengers.” While regularly derided by his critics as...
View ArticleLooking Back: Acton Experts on Benedict XVI’s Election
On April 19, 2005, Joseph Ratzinger was elected to become the next Pope after John Paul II. Several Acton Institute analysts wrote articles looking ahead to what kind of papacy the world could expect...
View ArticleSamuel Gregg On Ratzinger And A Culture Of Ignorance
We are five months into 2015, and life is still unjust. People are still ignorant and hurting each other. All the things we hope and pray for – peace, love, faith, understanding – still seem...
View Article6 ways to combat consumerism
The Gospel reading on Sunday was the story of Lazarus and the rich man. I often refer to this parable in discussions about poverty, because Augustine points out that it was not wealth that sent the...
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