Faith and Politics St. Maria Goretti and Scripture to help children

and Scripture to help children know

Decades later

followed by a licentiate in Sacred Scripture at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum of Jerusalem

In this telling of their story

Faith and Politics St. Maria Goretti and Scripture to help childrenPope Francis, in his foreword, states that one of the major themes in the thought of Joseph Ratzinger is the relationship between faith and politics: "His firsthand experience of Nazi totalitarianism led him even as a young student to reflect on the limits of obedience to the state for the sake of the liberty of obeying God."; In support of this, he quotes from one of Ratzinger's texts presented in this volume: "The state is not the whole of human