God, creation, and humanity: The 'lost lectures' of Benedict

God, creation, and humanity: The 'lost lectures' of Benedict XVI collected in new book

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at the Easter Vigil in St. Peter's Basilica on March 26, 2005, in Vatican City. / Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty ImagesDenver, Colo., Feb 19, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA).Six lectures of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger were almost lost forever. But now, they have been collected in a new Ignatius Press book, "The Divine Project: Reflections on Creation and Church.""It's a wonderful summation of what God intends in creating us and redeeming us, in six lectures. It's just a great find," Father Joseph Fessio, SJ, president of Ignatius Press, told CNA. "It's written for students and spoken for students. It's really quite readable."The future Pope Benedict XVI delivered the series of lectures in 1985 at the Bishop of Gurk's formation house at St. George's Abbey in Längsee in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia. They were recorded on audio cassettes but the tapes were misplaced for 30 years and forgotten. By chance, they were rediscovered."It was a treasure that ...

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