Alberto PizzoliPope Benedict XVI looks around during the audience for the new Metropolitan Archbishops in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, 30 June 2007. The Pontiff pressed China to respect religious freedom and the Vatican’s right to appoint its own bishops, dismissing Beijing’s nominees as “illegitimate”.
COMMENTARY: Both scholarly and yet accessible, Joseph Ratzinger’s Christocentric approach brought a clarity of thought that the Church will still be digesting decades, if not centuries, from now.