Tracey Rowland

Ratzinger Prize recipients are pictured with retired Pope Benedict XVI Nov. 13, 2021, at the Vatican. From left Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi, president of the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Foundation; French professor Jean-Luc Marion; Pope Benedict; Australian theologian Tracey Rowland; and German professors Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz and Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger. (CNS/Courtesy of Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Foundation)

Ratzinger scholar sees late Pope Benedict as future doctor of the church

Long before Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI, theologian Tracey Rowland was studying his scholarship — work that she believes should one day lead to Benedict being named a doctor of the church.

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