Joseph Ratzinger: Transcripts of Dialogue & Interviews

• Cardinal Ratzinger on Laicism and Sexual Ethics ZENIT International News Agency. November 19, 2004.
• Cardinal Ratzinger Tells Why Many Misperceive Christianity ZENIT International News Agency. May 7, 2004.
• Cardinal Ratzinger on Relativism, and Communion for the Remarried ZENIT International News Agency. February 23, 2004.
• Cardinal Ratzinger on Communion and Episcopal Collegiality ZENIT International News Agency. February 22, 2004.
• The Lord chooses our poverty, by Gianni Cardinale. 30 Giorni No. 9, September 2003. Ratzinger tells of his nomination as Archbishop of Munich and as cardinal by Paul VI in 1977 and the two conclaves of 1978.
• Raymond Arroyo with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger transcript of the interview by EWTN News Director Raymond Arroyo of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, which first aired on EWTN on 5 September 2003.
• Cardinal Ratzinger on the Abridged Version of Catechism ZENIT International News Agency. May 2, 2003.
• The catechism in a post-Christian world. Interview with Gianni Cardinale. 30 Giorni April 2003.
• Cardinal Ratzinger on Why It's Not Time for Vatican III ZENIT International News Agency. December 4, 2002.
• Cardinal Ratzinger Sees a Media Campaign Against Church ZENIT International News Agency. December 3, 2002.
• Cardinal Ratzinger Highlights Christian Challenge Following Sept. 11 ZENIT International News Agency. March 3, 2002.
• Cardinal Ratzinger with Bishops: a lively two-hour dialogue during a session of the Seminar as reported by Focolare Movement. 02 February 2002.
• Relativism: The New Face of Intolerance ZENIT News Agency. December 1, 2002.
• The Abolition of Man "An interview with the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Truth and subjectivism. Church and tolerance. West and Islam. Science and future. A viewpoint on basic issues of our times." Le Figaro Magazine/Volpe Dec. 2001. Interview given to Jean Sévillia.
• Cardinal Ratzinger Evaluates 20 Years in Rome ZENIT International News Service. November 23, 2001.
• Putting God First: Ratzinger Reflects on the Synod Interview with Father Bernardo Cervellera, the director of the Fides news service. October 31, 2001.
• Cardinal Ratzinger on the Future of Christianity "Above All, We Should Be Missionaries". ZENIT International News Agency. October 1, 2001.
• Cardinal Ratzinger, After the 9/11 Attacks excerpt of a translation of an interview Antonella Palermo of Vatican Radio had with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 2001. ZENIT International News Service. April 27, 2005.
• Answers to Main Objections against Dominus Iesus In an interview published on 22 September 2000, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung invited Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to respond to the principal objections raised against the Declaration Dominus Iesus. The daily edition of L'Osservatore Romano therefore published an Italian translation of the interview, omitting the parts that only concern the German situation. Here is a translation of the Italian version of the interview.
• A Question Answered Q&A with Ratzinger at the first International Congress of the San Dámaso Faculty of Theology. Feb 16-18, 2000.
• The Problem of Christian Prophecy Interview with Niels Christian Hvidt. 30 Giorni, No 1 - 1999.
• The Surprise of an Encounter Ratzinger at the Bishops' Seminar on Ecclesial Movements, June 16-18, 19999: two hours of questions. Notes from the replies of the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Communion and Liberation June 16th, 1999. Digitally provided courtesy of CatholicCulture.org.
• The Man Who Became Pope "The Sunday Business Post was the first Irish newspaper to interview Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. The interview was published on December 17, 1995, but his opinions on Ireland, the sex abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church and relativism are still topical today. Here, we reproduce the full interview by David Quinn, who met Ratzinger in Rome." April 4, 2005.
• "Luther and the Unity of the Churches: An Interview with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger" Communio: International Catholic Review. Vol. 11, no. 3 (1984): 210-26.
• Interview with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, given August 15-18, 1984 in Bressanone, Italy, with Vittorio Messori. [Basis for The Ratzinger Report]. Jesus, November 1984 issue, Milan, pp. 67-81. Excerpts republished in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly Newsletter. Vol. 8, No. 2, March 1985. pp. 1-8.