Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation has taken the world by surprise. However, the abdication of a pope is not unprecedented. There have been six others. Albeit, the last Pope to resign was Gregory XII in 1415.
The earliest pope to abdicate…
The Infancy Narratives
Pope Benedict XVI’s recently published The Infancy Narratives: Jesus of Nazareth was his Christmas gift to the Church. In this monograph the Pope uses history, Modern Biblical Criticism, the theological insights of the Evangelists and patrology to reintroduce us to…
Pope Benedict XVI’s The Infancy Narratives present us with five extraordinary models of faith, from whom we have much to learn and emulate on our own journeys towards God.
These five figures of faith are: Mary, St. Joseph, Anna, Simeon,…
Pope Benedict XVI’s last and third installment in his Jesus of Nazareth series, The Infancy Narratives, lives up to the expectations he established for readers in his previous works, combining remarkable clarity with deep theological insight that is the characteristic…
