The Rule of Benedict : Pope Benedict XVI and His Clash with the Modern World

The Rule of Benedict : Pope Benedict XVI and His Clash with the Modern World by David Gibson. HarperSanFrancisco (September 2006). In this detailed examination, Gibson tells how Cardinal Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, and why his ways of thinking about the church may not bode well for efforts to reform it in such areas as governance and opening the priesthood to women or married men. He paints the new pontiff as someone who is more interested in the personal piety of Catholics than their engagement with the world and issues of social justice. - Publisher's Weekly Reviews The Puzzling Pope: Who Is Benedict XVI? Andrew M. Greeley. Commonweal November 3, 2006 / Volume CXXXIII, Number 19. Facing a Fragmented Church, by Paul Wilkes. America Vol. 195 No. 10. October 9, 2006.