title: Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today
author: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
description: Text: English (translation)<br /> Original Language: German
zlib_text: # FAITH AND THE FUTURE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  JOSEPH CARDINAL RATZINGER  
  (POPE BENEDICT XVI)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Faith and the Future
  
  
  IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Original German edition:  
  Glaube und Zukunft  
  © 2006 by Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican City  
  © 1970 by Kösel-Verlag, München, ein Unternehmen  
  der Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH
  
  
  Original English edition published by  
  Franciscan Herald Press  
  © 1971 by Franciscan Herald Press  
  Published with ecclesiastical approval, 1971  
  Reprinted by permission of the  
  Center for Faith Development & Spirituality  
  at Quincy University
  
  
  Cover art: Detail from stained glass window  
  Lady Chapel, Sidney Sussex College  
  Cambridge, U.K.  
  Photograph by Br. Lawrence Lew, O.P.
  
  
  Cover design by John Herreid
  
  
  Published by Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 2009  
  ISBN 978-1-58617-219-0  
  Library of Congress Control Number 2008934739  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For Professor Johann Baptist Auer  
  on his sixtieth birth