Por más de 30 años, a Georg Ratzinger se le conocía en los círculos académicos de Alemania como un prestigioso director del coro de niños de la catedral de Ratisbona. El 19 de abril de 2005, adquirió otro título más humilde, pero a la vez más noble: "El hermano del Papa". En esta conversación con el periodista y escritor, Michael Hesemann, Georg Ratzinger cuenta la historia de la estrecha amistad que ha unido a estos dos hermanos por más de 80 años con una perspectiva única sobre los senti...

Niemand kennt Papst Benedikt XVI. besser, keiner ist mit ihm enger vertraut als sein Bruder Georg Ratzinger. Gemeinsam wurden sie zu Priestern geweiht, bis heute verbringen sie ihren Urlaub zusammen und telefonieren fast täglich miteinander. Georg Ratzinger erzählt offen aus dem privaten Leben des katholischen Kirchenoberhaupts: Wie er als Kind war und zum Glauben fand, wie die Familie die Wirren des Krieges überstand, warum in Joseph der Wunsch wuchs, der Kirche zu dienen, und wie diese E...

Be sure to check out the for more information.It wasn't always the case that Msgr. Georg Ratzinger lived in the shadow of his younger brother, Joseph. Georg was an accomplished musician, who for over 30 years directed the Regensburger Domspatzchor, the world-famous boys choir of the Regensburg cathedral. Brother Joseph was a brilliant young professor, but mostly known in German academic circles.Now Georg writes about the close friendship that has united these two brothers f...

Não há quem conheça melhor o papa Bento XVI nem seja mais íntimo dele do que seu irmão Georg Ratzinger. Filhos de um policial da Baviera, no sul da Alemanha, foram ordenados padre na juventude, na mesma cerimônia, e durante toda a vida estreitaram cada vez mais seus laços. Passam as férias juntos e, ainda hoje, falam-se quase que diariamente. Ninguém melhor do que Georg, portanto, para contar toda a história de vida de Joseph Ratzinger, revelando como ele galgou cada degrau na hierarquia d...

Fr. Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai, a native of Cameroon, has written a fresh, exciting new study of the lifelong engagement of Josef Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, with the German Enlightenment and its contemporary manifestations and heirs. Contemporary European disdain for organized religion and the rise in secularism on that continent has deep roots in the German Enlightenment. To understand contemporary Europe, one must return to this crucial epoch in its history, to those who shaped t...