Called to Communion

Author: Joseph Ratzinger

Publisher: Ignatius Press, 1996

Description: The five chapters of this book attempt to offer a sort of primer of Catholic ecclesiology. The first three chapters were written for a theology course in Rio de Janeiro that drew a gathering of around a hundred bishops from every quarter of Brazil between the twenty-third and the twenty-seventh of July 1990. The principal question concerned the relationship between the universal Church and the particular Church, with special regard to the primacy of the successor of Peter and its relation to the ministry of the bishops.