James V. Schall on the Pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI

James V. Schall, S.J., is Professor of Government at Georgetown University. He is the author of numerous books on social issues, spirituality, culture, and literature -- and since the advent of his pontificate in 2005, has provided regular commentary on the addresses of Pope Benedict XVI for Ignatius Press.

• "Present and Active Within World History": On Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two March 10, 2011.
• Religious Freedom and Religious Persecution January 27, 2011. On Benedict XVI's "Message for the World Day of Peace".
• On Faithful and Faithless Theologians January 15, 2011. "When the pope talks to theologians, it is a theologian talking to theologians, with this difference, one of them is also pope."
• "A World Existing Independently From Us": On the Pope and the Scientific Method November 29, 2010.
• "The Ultimate Meaning of Our Human Existence": On the Fundamental Question of the Modern Age October 7, 2010.
• Faith Abides: The Intelligence of Benedict XVI. September 27, 2010
  
• The Challenge of Jesus of Nazareth August 11, 2010.
  
• On Using Heart and Mind - On Benedict XVI's Address To Young People in the Cathedral in Sulmona, July 4, 2010. July 22, 2010.
  
• "The Great 'Surprise' of St. Thomas" July 5, 2010.
  
• "And Not To Any God": Benedict XVI and the God Question June 10, 2010.
  
• Life: Political, Endless, and Eternal April 25, 2010.
  
• Veritas Vincit: The Pope in Prague October 28, 2009.
  
• Omnipotence and Mercy August 21, 2009.
  
• Caritas in Veritate: "It's Principle Driving Force..." July 14, 2009.
  
• Caritas in Veritate Is a Guide For Temporal Life Zenit. July 8, 2009.
  
• The Gift of God On Benedict's remarks in Nazareth, June 15 2009.
  
• "A Word Addressed by God to His People": Benedict XVI and the Interpretation of Sacred Scripture May 19, 2009.
  
• "The Single Divine Plan": Thinking About Poverty December 17, 2008. Benedict XVI's recent World Day of Peace Message contains some important--and often surprising--observations.
  
• "Words create history": On Benedict XVI and the Synod October 20, 2008.
  
• Benedict in Paris: "Logos is among us." September 15, 2008.
  
• Will To Truth: On the Death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn August 6, 2008.
  
• On The Risk of Listening June 26, 2008. In his ongoing work of addressing what he calls the "crisis of modernity," Pope Benedict XVI continually urges a return to vibrant, authentic philosophical inquiry.
  
• "The Reality of God": Benedict XVI on the Trinity June 5, 2008. Over Trinity Sunday, the Holy Father reflected deeply on the central mystery of the Christian Faith.
  
• Ratzinger's Faith and Reason - In Appreciation of Tracey Rowland's Ratzinger's Faith: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI.
  
• The Papal Visit April 8, 2008.
  
• "Always More Than Is Seen": Benedict XVI on the Meaning of Man March 1, 2008.
  
• Father James Schall on "Spe Salvi" (Part I) January 31, 2008. | February 1, 2008. Interview with Carrie Gress, Zenit News Service.
  
• Why the Bewilderment? Benedict XVI on Natural Law October 27, 2007. The Holy Father continues to emphasize the reasonable nature of Christianity as he fights against both religious and secular fundamentalism.
  
• Regensburg Revisited (Part 1): Interview With Father James Schall | Part II | Part III October 9-11, 2007. Interview with Zenit.org.
  
• "Where God is, there is the future" October 1, 2007.
  
• "The Self-Revelation of God's Reality in History": On the Final Chapter of Jesus of Nazareth September 6, 2007.
  
• Pope Benedict XVI and the Essential Worldwide Mission August 27, 2007.
  
• "No Weighing, No Disputing, No Such Thing": Ratzinger and Europe August 11, 2007.
  
• "God Is The Issue" | The Temptation in the Desert and the Kingdoms of This World in Benedict XVI's Jesus of Nazareth June 29, 2007.
  
• God Made Visible: On the Foreword to Benedict XVI's Jesus of Nazareth June 18, 2007.
  
• Pope Benedict XVI On Natural Law March 16, 2007.
  
• Benedict on Aquinas: "Faith Implies Reason" February 1, 2007.
  
• Secularity: On Benedict XVI and the Role of Religion in Society January 9, 2007.
  
• "A Requirement of Intellectual Honesty": On Benedict and the German Bishops December 20, 2006.
  
• What is the Proper Object of Theology? The Pope at the Gregorian November 27, 2006.
  
• Intellectual Charity: On Benedict XVI and the Canadian Bishops | Fr. James V. Schall, S. J. October 9, 2006.
  
• God as Logos, Allah as Will Father James Schall on Benedict XVI's Regensburg Address. Zenit News. October 3, 2006.
  
• The State Which Would Provide Everything Commentary on Deus Caritas Est par 28b. October 3, 2006.
  
• Ratzinger and Regensburg: On What Is a University? September 18, 2006.
  
• The Regensburg Lecture: Thinking Rightly About God and Man September 15, 2006.
  
• Atheism and the Purely "Human" Ethic June 5, 2006. On Benedict XVI's Address to Biblical Commission.
  
• The Encyclical: God’s Eros Is Agape January 2006.
  
• On Reading the Pope: Part I | Part II. January 20, 2006.
  
• What a Homily Should Be: Doctrinal, Liturgical, and Spiritual On Benedict XVI's address to the Austrian Bishops (ad limina visit, November 5, 2005).