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Ratzinger and the theologians

Benedict XVI’s true legacy is his theological work, which characteristically insists on the unity of faith and reason—a unity his interlocutor, the critical theorist Jürgen Habermas, acknowledged as the essence of Western culture. This was especially clear in his dealings with liberation theology when Cardinal Ratzinger was head of CDF. [1]