Pope Benedict XVI Death: Reflections on His Theology & Legacy

Pope Benedict XVI, the former Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, died this morning at the age of 95. Professor Tracey Rowland is the St. John Paul II Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia and author, among other books, of Ratzinger’s Faith: The Theology of Benedict XVI. In 2020, she won the Ratzinger Prize for Theology.

As the news broke of the pope emeritus’s passing, Rowland took some questions about Pope Benedict’s life and legacy from NR’s Kathryn Jean Lopez.

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Pope Benedict XVI, the former Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, died this morning at the age of 95. Professor Tracey Rowland is the St. John Paul II Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia and author, among other books, of Ratzinger’s Faith: The Theology of Benedict XVI. In 2020, she won the Ratzinger Prize for Theology.

As the news broke of the pope emeritus’s passing, Rowland took some questions about Pope Benedict’s life and legacy from NR’s Kathryn Jean Lopez.