Articles by Tracey Rowland

About Tracey Rowland
Tracey Rowland holds the St. John Paul II Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame (Australia) and is a past Member of the International Theological Commission and a current member of the Pontifical Academy of the Social Sciences. She earned her doctorate in philosophy from Cambridge University and her Licentiate and Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. She is the author of several books, including Ratzinger’s Faith: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI (2008), Benedict XVI: A Guide for the Perplexed (2010), Catholic Theology (2017), The Culture of the Incarnation: Essays in Catholic Theology (2017), Portraits of Spiritual Nobility (Angelico Press, 2019), Beyond Kant and Nietzsche: The Munich Defence of Christian Humanism (T&T Clark, 2021), and Unconformed to the Age: Essays in Ecclesiology (Emmaus Academic, 2024).
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The Pope and the Philistines

February 18, 2013 Tracey Rowland 0

In Called to Communion, published in 1996, a decade before the beginning of his papacy, Joseph Ratzinger had some strong words to say about the bureaucratic machinery of the Church.  He wrote: The more administrative […]

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A Pope Who Thinks in Centuries

April 18, 2010 Tracey Rowland 1

In 1963 Columbia Pictures produced the movie The Cardinal. According to Wikipedia the Vatican’s liaison officer on the project was a young Joseph Ratzinger. In the movie there is a dialogue between a couple of […]