- The Altar and the Direction of Liturgical Prayer.
- Art & Liturgy: The Question of Images
- Art, Image and Artists: Sacred art, inspired by faith, both reflects and informs the culture (Part II)
- Music and Liturgy: How does music express the Word of God, the Vision of God?
- The Theology of Kneeling, excerpt from a chapter, "The Body and the Liturgy."
- What Does 'Rite' Mean in the Context of Christian Liturgy?. pp. 164-167.
Additional Texts:
- Biblical Aspects of the Theme of Faith and Politics | Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger | From Church, Ecumenism, & Politics: New Endeavors in Ecclesiology
- Why We Must Not Give Up The Fight | Joseph Ratzinger on why there are no "small murders" | From Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures
(Ignatius Press, 2006)
- The Truth of the Resurrection | Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger | From Introduction to Christianity
- The Canon of Criticism. pp. 179-213 of Salt of the Earth (1997).
- The End of Religion? (Chapter 1 of Feast of Faith: Approaches to the Theology of the Liturgy
- Reconciling Gospel and Torah: The Catechism, [this essay was later included in Many Religions: One Covenant, under the title: 'Israel, The Church, and The World: Their Relation and Mission, according to the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church'].
- For "Many" or For "All"?, excerpt from God Is Near Us: The Eucharist, the Heart of Life
- Why Do We Need Faith?, excerpt from What It Means to be a Christian Ignatius Press (June 20, 2006).
- The Question of Suffering, the Response of the Cross An excerpt from God and the World: A Conversation with Peter Seewald.
- The Lord Is Near Us in Our Conscience, in His Word, in His Personal Presence in the Eucharist. A Homily on Deuteronomy 4:7. Excerpt from God is Near Us: the Eucharist, the Heart of Life.
- "In the Presence of Angels I Will Sing Your Praise": The Regensburg Tradition and the Reform of the Liturgy. Reprinted from A New Song for the Lord: Christian Belief and Liturgy Today, published in Germany in 1995.
- On the Meaning of the Eucharist. Excerpt from "A God Who Is Near" ("Il Dio Vicino," St. Paul Editions).
- "Don't Forget Mary" The Marian devotion of our present Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, is beautifully manifest in his previously articulated "six reasons for not forgetting" Mary. Excerpt from The Ratzinger Report.
- The Rupture Between Sexuality and Marriage, excerpts from The Ratzinger Report.
- Why Church and State Must Be Separate excerpt from "Theology and the Church’s Political Stance" in Church, Ecumenism and Politics (NY, Crossroads, 1987).
- Conscience in Its Age. Lecture given to the Reinhold-Schneider-Gesellschaft, printed in Church, Ecumenism and Politics
