...Yaakov Mascetti In 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger took the occasion of his last homily before election as Pope Benedict XVI to assault what he termed the “dictatorship of relativism,” and Common Knowledge responded in 2007 with a double issue (vol. 13, nos. 2–3) in defense of relativism. Yaakov...

...Julia Kristeva; Jeffrey M. Perl Written originally as part of a Common Knowledge symposium (2007) responding to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s homily against relativism, which was delivered immediately before his election as pope, this essay describes a reactionary German intellectual current...

..., Simon Goldhill INTRODUCTION: “SURTOUT PAS DE ZÈLE” Joseph Ratzinger delivered his last homily as dean of the College of Cardinals at the votive mass of April 18, 2005, immediately preceding the election of the new pope — Ratzinger himself...

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... they appear, and the speaker’s role at the time, one need not see anything intellectually signifi- cant — informative, weighty, or unusual — in Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s state- ments regarding relativism in his homily to the conclave meeting to elect the new pope.1 Embedded in a homily — which...

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