Complex sentence: The Ratzinger Report is the name given to a long series of interviews, collected over several days, that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger gave to the Italian journalist Vittorio Messori in 1985, which discussed the state of the Roman Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council.
Split into simpler sentences: The Ratzinger Report is 1985 book comprised of a series of interviews collected over several days given by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to the Italian journalist Vittorio Messori. The book focuses on the state of the Roman Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council.