Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger is the Prefect of the Vatican Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith. He is a highly regarded theologian who
has been a university professor and the author of numerous
theological works as well as a leading theologian at the Second
Vatican Council. Peter Seewald is a German journalist who has been a
staff writer for two of Germany s top weekly magazines as well as for
one of the country s most respected newspapers.