What Is Christianity?After Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI resigned from the papacy in 2013, he never stopped thinking or writing. Near the end of his life, he and editor Elio Guerriero gathered together a whole volume of new material, dealing with the themes closest to his heart. The pope asked that it be published upon his death. This final work is What Is Christianity? It takes up a kaleidoscopic array of themes: the Christian faiths relationship with other religions,

Tracing the meaning of holiness first through the Old Testament and then the New

Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine

now the very categories of male and female are being discarded with reckless abandon

they will also learn to love and respect beloved saints

The message of Divine Mercy has become an integral part of Catholic life

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As a remedy

An anthology of 70 essays and articles by prelates and pastors

eloquent defense of the age-old Catholic practice of making the Sign of the Cross

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Regardless of the sufferings she experienced

organic synthesis of the essential and fundamental Catholic teachings in the light of the Second Vatican Council and the whole of the Church's Tradition