This agreement, first hailed as historic, allowed for all bishops in China to be in full communion with the Pope Photo: Revista Ecclesia

“The Christian Image of Man,” Unpublished Text That Benedict XVI Authorized Be Published After His Death

One of the most salient points of the writing is the Pope Emeritus’ criticism of today’s ideological currents, such as gender ideology and the manipulation of life in laboratories. According to Benedict XVI, these tendencies are the fruit of a Marxism disguised as extreme liberalism, which has deformed the concept of freedom and threatens to undermine the essence of what it means to be human.