The Fathers
Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Alois Ratzinger in 1927, served as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from April 2005 through February 2013. Formerly he was Dean of the College of Cardinals, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and President of the International Theological Commission. An outstanding theologian and teacher, he was one of the founders, along with Hans Urs von Balthasar and Henri de Lubac, of the international Catholic journalCommunio, and he has also enjoyed a distinguished teaching career at such universities as T�bingen and Regensburg in his home country of Germany.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.