Ghost Writer of Cardinal Frings at the Council
Oct 16, 2004
Ratzinger was the peritus, or theological expert, of Cologne’s Cardinal Josef Frings at the Second Vatican Council.
(The Tablet, 18 September 2004) At the time, Ratzinger and his boss stood with the liberal conciliar majority. Ratzinger was the ghost writer of a famous speech by Card. Frings at the council, in which he defined the Holy Office (now: Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith) as a “source of scandal”. His book from that era, Introduction to Christianity, is considered a classic even by many of his later theological opponents.
Ghost Writer of Cardinal Frings at the Council