Munich (dpa / lby) - The author and Ratzinger biographer Peter Seewald wants to publish at least 50 masterpieces of Catholic literature in his own edition. He wanted to "make the significant and often forgotten treasures of faith accessible again," said Seewald in an interview with the Christian radio Horeb and spoke of a "library of Catholic classics" and authors such as Blaise Pascal, John Henry Newman, Edith Stein, Augustinus or just Pope Benedict.
Seewald is considered a confidante and admirer of the resigned conservative Pope Benedict XVI. and published a highly acclaimed, extremely extensive biography of the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger a few years ago.
Especially "in view of a completely insecure church that is about to forget its roots, and a secularized society that basically hardly knows what it is talking about when it speaks of Christianity and especially the Catholic faith", they are timeless Valid works of spiritual thinkers and poets are red hot again, Seewald told the Christian radio station.
There will be three lines in the new edition: classic, biographical and narrative. All of this is to be published by Credo Medien GmbH in Munich, and according to Seewald, six volumes have already been produced.
