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SIGNED BY THE POPE BEFORE HE WAS ELECTED
BENEDICT XVI
(Pope, Joseph Alois Ratzinger, b.1927, 265th and reigning Pope)
One volume of '
Church Ecumenism & Politics
' signed 'Joseph Card Ratzinger', inscribed
"For Fabian Chancy" and dated, together with some related ephemera, 1 volume paperback 8vo., 25th January
On 25th November 1981, Pope John Paul II, upon the retirement of Franjo Šeper, named Ratzinger as the Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly known as the "Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office", the historical Roman Inquisition. He was promoted within the College of Cardinals to become Cardinal Bishop of Velletri-Segni in 1993 and was made the college's vice-dean in 1998 and dean in 2002. Just a year after its foundation in 1990 Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger joined the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg/Austria in 1991. Ratzinger defended and reaffirmed Catholic doctrine, including teaching on topics such as birth control, homosexuality and inter-religious dialogue.
Item Date:
1988
Stock No:
40509
£475
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