Originally published at National Catholic Register
New Series Will Include Titles Now Available Only In German
Bishop Robert Barron’s media company Word on Fire plans to publish in English more than two dozen volumes of the collected works of Joseph Ratzinger from before and during the time he served as Pope Benedict XVI, including titles currently not available except in his native German.
The project, which will include books and academic articles, will require a small army of translators and editors, under the direction of Tracey Rowland, an Australian theologian who has written two books about the late pope’s thought and who won the Ratzinger Prize for theology in 2020.
The new series will appeal to “all Catholics around the world who are interested in uniting faith and reason,” Rowland told the Register in a telephone interview.
She also identified priests, seminarians and theology students as a likely audience, along with Protestants who are interested in Ratzinger’s analysis of Scripture and Christology.
Rowland touted Ratzinger’s approachable style, dealing with sophisticated subjects in simple language.
“He is easy to read for people who are not professional theologians,” Rowland said. “I think he always wrote with a pastoral objective in mind. He was always writing to help
