Bishop Schneider’s New Book “Springtime” a Worthy Successor of “Christus Vincit”, by Peter Kwasniewski

Readers past a certain age may remember the momentous role played in our lives as Catholics by the book-length interviews released by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and, later, Benedict XVI. The first of these and in some ways the most impressive for its time was The Ratzinger Report of 1985. Reading it today can still raise eyebrows at the then-Prefect’s audacity: Vatican officials were not supposed to be telling the unvarnished truth like this! We had not yet realized that Ratzinger was the greatest theologian-interviewee of Church history—one who could, in spontaneous conversation, deliver answers with greater profundity and amplitude than any of our professional theologians with any amount of time and resources at their disposal. …

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