Co-hosts Joshua Lesan and Patrick Germann speak with Fr. Joseph Fessio, SJ, editor of Ignatius Press, and Fr. Mark Doherty, president-rector of St. Patrick’s Seminary, about the theme of spiritual fatherhood in the work of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI. Ratzinger looks to St. Joseph as the model spiritual father and understands creation as a cosmos brought into being by a loving father. In trusting relationship with the Father, we as children are invited to share in and work under the family name and to participate in paternalauctoritas by bringing about growth in others.Resources: Benedict XVI. Address for the Celebration of Vespers. Basilica of Marie, Reine des Apôtres, in Yaoundé, Cameroon. March 18, 2009.  Ratzinger, Joseph.“In the Beginning . . .”: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall. Translated by Boniface Ramsey. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995.  Ratzinger, Joseph/Benedict XVI. Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration. Translated by Adrian J. Walker. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2007.

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