Recent Photos of Benedict XVI

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI received 4 recipients of the 2020/2021 Ratzinger Prize this afternoon. “It was a very lively meeting which lasted a full hour,” said the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation who supplied these photos. https://t.co/iujAmDbt0B pic.twitter.com/puBDf8ESiW

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) November 13, 2021

Benedict XVI, 94, met today with four recipients of the Ratzinger Prize at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican. https://t.co/EzZ3vrta5g

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) November 13, 2021

2020 Ratzinger Award

🏆🇫🇷🇦🇺L'édition 2020 du Prix #Ratzinger sera remise le 14 novembre prochain par @Pontifex_fr au philosophe et théologien français Jean-Luc Marion, et à l'enseignante australienne Tracey Rowland. https://t.co/myHGvwGMUe

— Vatican News (@vaticannews_fr) October 1, 2020

Tracey Rowland Reviews A Poetic Christ: Thomist Reflections on Scripture, Language and Reality

CWR Dispatch: New book by French Dominican skillfully defends Gospels, uniqueness of Christ by Tracey Rowland
A review of Olivier-Thomas Venard’s A Poetic Christ: Thomist Reflections on Scripture, Language and Reality

Perhaps It Is Too Late to Implement

CWR: St. Newman’s Idea of a Catholic University: An Alma Mater, not a foundry, mint, or treadmill by Tracey Rowland

As we celebrate the canonization of John Henry Newman this week and re-read his publications on this subject, the gulf between his vision of Catholic education and what we currently have is stark.

She Has Her Fans

Catholic Theology by Tracey Rowland


Fr. Z is one. BOOKS RECEIVED and a strong recommendation and a new liturgical rites manual

Interview with Tracey Rowland

CWR: Tracey Rowland's Guide Through the Catholic Academic "Zoo" by Carl E. Olson

"Theology is important because it is all about reasoning about the highest things. It is the one thing a person doesn’t want to get wrong in life because it affects one’s eternal destiny."

Not Just Scotland

CWR: Once deeply Catholic, modern Scotland needs a theological revival
From Saints Mungo and Margaret to writer George Mackay Brown, the Catholic roots of Scotland run deep, despite post-Reformation neglect.
By Tracey Rowland

On a recent trip to Scotland Bishop Gilbert of Aberdeen asked me whether I was familiar with the Scottish writer George Mackay Brown. I had to confess that I had never heard of him. A few days later I was rummaging through second-hand book stores searching for everything and anything by Mackay Brown.

CWR Interview with Tracey Rowland

A View From the International Theological Commission: An Interview with Tracey Rowland by John Paul Shimek (via Insight Scoop)

The Wrong Sort of Trumpeting

Post by Catholic World Report.

"No feminism at work here."

More from Crisis on Benedict XVI

Benedict’s Intellectual Mentors and Students by Tracey Rowland
The Strange World of Garry Wills by Tom Piatak
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Tracey Roland on the Pontificate of Benedict XVI

The Pope and the Philistines by Tracey Rowland
Benedict XVI’s papacy has been one of imagination and urbanity hampered by bureaucracy

Tracey Rowland on the New Latin Academy

The New Pontifical Academy for Latin by Tracey Rowland

Against the Grain: Critical Responses to Tracey Rowland's "Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II"