Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith

Written by Joseph Pearce

Narrated by Kevin O'Brien

Pope Benedict XVI will go down in Church history as one of the greatest popes. In this heartfelt defense of Pope Benedict’s words and works, a tribute to his life and legacy and a homage to his sanity and sanctity, Joseph Pearce’s biography provides an unforgettable encounter with this great historical figure.

As the defender of the Faith, Pope Benedict XVI fought tirelessly and largely successfully against the forces of secularism first as the indomitable Ratzinger and then as the incomparable supreme pontiff. As an uncompromising defender of the dignity of the human person, he fought the wickedness of the world in his unremitting battle against the dictatorship of relativism and its culture of death.

Within the Church, he fought against the spirit of the world in his war on modernism and its worship of the spirit of the age, restoring the splendor of truth in his defense of orthodoxy and the splendor of the liturgy in his defense of tradition. Years from now, Catholics will still look back on Pope Benedict’s enduring legacy with enormous gratitude. For he successfully steered the barque of Peter in charity and truth against the evil tides that sought to engulf the Church.

• Language: English
• Publisher: TAN Books
• Release date: Nov 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9781505125849

Joseph Pearce

Joseph Pearce is Writer in Residence and Visiting Fellow at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, NH. He is a renowned biographer whose books include Candles in the Dark: The Authorized Biography of Fr. Ho Lung, Missionaries of the Poor (Saint Benedict Press, 2012); Through Shakespeare's Eyes: Seeing the Catholic Presence in the Plays (Ignatius Press, 2010); and Tolkien: Man and Myth, a Literary Life (HarperCollins, 1998). He is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Higher Education from Thomas More College for the Liberal Arts and the Pollock Award for Christian Biography. He is co-editor of the St. Austin Review, editor-in-Chief of Ignatius Press Critical Editions, and editor-in-Chief of Sapientia Press.

[Birgitta Kigongo · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

To hear a clear voice defending the dignity of a human and the true Church like Pope Benedict did, is a beautiful experience. He had lived through the natzi regime and the false freedom of the 60th and was never fooled by similar movements of today. Pope Benedict didn’t have to raise his voice. His gentle tone of reason had complete authority to those of us who have ears to hear. I feel privileged every time I come by the writings of this Giant. Though I have never studied at the University I can appreciate his logic.

[rose · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Utter garbage, ratzinger contradicted , destroyed and twisted everything catholic, he was a nazi and a friend of pedos, like his brother