. "Ratzinger Report"@en . "The Ratzinger Report is the name given to a long series of interviews, collected over several days, that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger gave to the Italian journalist Vittorio Messori in 1985, which discussed the state of the Roman Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council. The Report was very critical of the hermeneutic of rupture associated with the liberal spirit of Vatican II within the Church. It has been often re-read in the context of the current papacy of Benedict XVI, in order to correctly understand the mind and the thinking of the Sovereign pontiff."@en . . . . "The Ratzinger Report is the name given to a long series of interviews, collected over several days, that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger gave to the Italian journalist Vittorio Messori in 1985, which discussed the state of the Roman Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council. The Report was very critical of the hermeneutic of rupture associated with the liberal spirit of Vatican II within the Church. It has been often re-read in the context of the current papacy of Benedict XVI, in order to correctly understand the mind and the thinking of the Sovereign pontiff."@en .