Table of Contents for Light of the World

ContentsPage
Foreword by George Weigel (read online) ix
Preface xv
Part I: SIGNS OF THE TIMES
1. Popes Do Not Fall from the Sky 3
2. The Abuse Scandal 18
3. Causes of the Crisis and a New Opportunity 34
4. The Global Catastrophe 42
5. Dictatorship of Relativism 50
6. Time for Conversion 60
Part II: THE PONTIFICATE
7. Habemus Papam 69
8. In the Shoes of the Fisherman 79
9. Ecumenism and the Dialogue with Islam 86
10. Proclaiming the Gospel 102
11. The Journeys of a Shepherd 111
12. The Williamson Affair 120
Part III: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
13. Church, Faith, and Society 133
14. Overdue Reforms? 143
15. How Is the Church Renewed? 155
16. Mary and the Message of Fatima 163
17. The Return of Jesus Christ 167
18. On the Last Things 178
Appendix
Serious Sins against Defenseless Children. From the Pastoral Letter to the Catholics of Ireland, dated March 19, 2010 189
Faith and Violence. From the “Regensburg Address”, dated September 12, 2006 192
Aids and the Humanization of Sexuality. From the Interview during the Flight to Cameroon on March 17, 2009 193
Benedict XVI: Curriculum Vitae and a Brief Chronicle of the Pontificate 195

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