BOOKS ON POPE BENEDICT XVI (JOSEPH CARDINAL RATZINGER) Writen by JOHN ALLEN JR. (JOHN ALLEN JR. will be the special guest during the Semi Centennial celebration of the Divine Word Seminary Tagaytay City, March 12. He will be joined by Luis Cardinal Tagle on March 13, during a Dinner for a Cause at the Elements Centris, QC. This is a unique opportunity to meet and listen to the most informed and experienced people about the Church. This is open to the public. Reserve your tickets now) For several years, Allen wrote a weekly column about Catholicism called All Things Catholic. Before the middle of 2006, it was known as The Word from Rome. This column appears in the print and online versions of the National Catholic Reporter, a publication Allen has worked for since 1997. In addition to this column and occasional other pieces for NCR, Allens work as a journalist has been appeared in the New York Times, CNN, NPR, The Tablet, Jesus, Second Opinion, The Nation, the Miami Herald, Die Furche, and the Irish Examiner. Allen is the author of several books, including one about Opus Dei, Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church and two about Pope Benedict XVI. The first was written before Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger became pope, the other after his election to the papacy. They were all published by Doubleday Random House. In 2000, Allen published Cardinal Ratzinger: The Vaticans Enforcer of the Faith, a biography. In his next biography of Ratzinger, The Rise of Benedict XVI: The Inside Story of How the Pope Was Elected and Where He Will Take the Catholic Church (2005), Allen tried to be fair to all sides and viewpoints. Allen acknowledged that his first book was unbalanced because it was his first book and was written, he wrote, before I arrived in Rome and before I really knew a lot about the universal church. He said his second biography gives prominent voice to criticisms of Ratzinger; it does not give equally prominent voice to how he himself would see some of these issues.
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