The Vatican's Enforcer.(Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger)

National Catholic Reporter | April 16, 1999| | Copyright

Batzinger's 18 years of chasing dissent leave behind a bruised, divided church

Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger was born in rural Bavaria on April 16, exactly 72 years ago. Perhaps it is fate that the day was Holy Saturday and his parents were Joseph and Mary -- eerie foreshadowing for a child who would grow up to become a stark sign of contradiction in the world's largest Christian church.

Like so much else about Ratzinger, how far to press that biblical parallel is contested. Some say his 18 years as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the ...

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