Values in a Time of Upheaval

Values in a Time of Upheaval The Crossroad Publishing Company (September 2006) First published in April 2005 in Germany, Values in a Time of Upheaval instantly became a bestseller. The critique of relativism Ratzinger offered as the world mourned Pope John Paul II is here presented in richer detail. In chapters on the history and destiny of human life, Benedict XVI covers such topics as the dangers of secularism, the meaning of truth in a pluralistic world, morality, and the Christian basis for hope.

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.