Welcome to our Pope Benedict XVI specialty store.

In honor of Pope Benedict XVI's Apostolic Journey to the United States, in April 2008, the theme of which is "Christ Our Hope" we are pleased to be able to provide both devotional and commemorative items pertaining to the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, 266th Pope of the Universal Church, Successor to St. Peter the Apostle and the Vicar of Christ on earth.

To read the official short biography of Pope Benedict XVI, from the Vatican Publications Office, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, please click here.

Pope Benedict XVI Framed Print

The release date for this new CD is November 23, 2009.

Pope Benedict XVI reflects on the Apostles, their teaching and the life of the early church. Pope Benedict's Wednesday General Audience series of talks on the 12 Apostles have been collected into this new single volume work. "Through the Apostles, we come to Jesus himself" --- Pope Benedict XVI In this fascinating and inspirational journey with the friends of Jesus, Pope …

"Through the Apostles, we come to Jesus himself." -- Pope Benedict XVI Expand the richness of Pope Benedict's timely, relevant, and Scripture-focused teachings on the Apostles with over sixty visually stunning, full-color illustrations from artists such as Giotto, Caravaggio, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci. In this fascinating and inspirational journey with the chosen disciples …

We're very proud to feature this commemorative high-grade polo shirt of Pope Benedict's Apostolic Journey "Christ Our Hope" to the U.S. in April 2008. Show your loyalty to your Catholic faith and to our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, with this special edition Outer Banks brand polo shirt. featuring a high-quality embroidered logo. This is the small size shirt in …

We're very proud to feature this commemorative high-grade polo shirt of Pope Benedict's Apostolic Journey "Christ Our Hope" to the U.S. in April 2008. Show your loyalty to your Catholic faith and to our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, with this special edition Outer Banks brand polo shirt. featuring a high-quality embroidered logo. This is the medium size shirt in …

We're very proud to feature this commemorative high-grade polo shirt of Pope Benedict's Apostolic Journey "Christ Our Hope" to the U.S. in April 2008. Show your loyalty to your Catholic faith and to our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, with this special edition Outer Banks brand polo shirt. featuring a high-quality embroidered logo. This is the large size shirt in …

We're very proud to feature this commemorative high-grade polo shirt of Pope Benedict's Apostolic Journey "Christ Our Hope" to the U.S. in April 2008. Show your loyalty to your Catholic faith and to our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, with this special edition Outer Banks brand polo shirt. featuring a high-quality embroidered logo. This is the x-large size shirt …

We're very proud to feature this commemorative high-grade polo shirt of Pope Benedict's Apostolic Journey "Christ Our Hope" to the U.S. in April 2008. Show your loyalty to your Catholic faith and to our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, with this special edition Outer Banks brand polo shirt. featuring a high-quality embroidered logo. This is the small size shirt in …

We're very proud to feature this commemorative high-grade polo shirt of Pope Benedict's Apostolic Journey "Christ Our Hope" to the U.S. in April 2008. Show your loyalty to your Catholic faith and to our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, with this special edition Outer Banks brand polo shirt. featuring a high-quality embroidered logo. This is the medium size shirt in …

We're very proud to feature this commemorative high-grade polo shirt of Pope Benedict's Apostolic Journey "Christ Our Hope" to the U.S. in April 2008. Show your loyalty to your Catholic faith and to our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, with this special edition Outer Banks brand polo shirt. featuring a high-quality embroidered logo. This is the large size shirt in …

We're very proud to feature this commemorative high-grade polo shirt of Pope Benedict's Apostolic Journey "Christ Our Hope" to the U.S. in April 2008. Show your loyalty to your Catholic faith and to our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, with this special edition Outer Banks brand polo shirt. featuring a high-quality embroidered logo. This is the X-Large size shirt …

We're very proud to feature this commemorative high-grade polo shirt of Pope Benedict's Apostolic Journey "Christ Our Hope" to the U.S. in April 2008. Show your loyalty to your Catholic faith and to our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, with this special edition Outer Banks brand polo shirt. featuring a high-quality embroidered logo. This is the double extar large …

Behold the Pierced One by  Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger From the prayerful dialogue between Jesus and His Father, Ratzinger shows we can only approach the mystery of His Heart through the imitation of His prayer.

Brennan Pursell, author of the newly released book Benedict of Bavaria hopes to share the intimate side of Pope Benedict XVI with the world and give readers a glimpse at the true nature of the man—how his mind works, what his heart loves, and where his loyalties lie. Unlike other books about Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict, Pursell shows that like his Catholic faith, Benedict's Bavarian …

Includes 3 booklets.

In the person of Benedict XVI, the Church has a Pope who is one of the most significant of Europe’s intellectuals. The journalist Peter Seewald, who has known Ratzinger since 1992, conducted the “longest interviews in Church history” with him, for two books which were best-sellers world-wide, Salt of the Earth , and God and the World. Now, for the first time, Seewald …

Daily thoughts and meditations from Pope Benedict XVI. With this new book you can start every day with a meditation from Pope Benedict XVI! Edited by Fr. Peter John Cameron O.P., (the editor of Magnificat ), Benedictus is compiled from books, talks, and homilies by the Pope. In the same richly decorated and beautifully typeset style of the Magnificat missal, this volume gives 366 meditations …

Black Wood bead Pope Benedict Rosary. Length 21in"

    Let us turn our gaze toward Christ. It is he who will make us free to love as he loves us, and to build a reconciled world. - Pope Benedict XVI Imagine starting every morning with five minutes with the Holy Father! How would your routine and daily preparation change based on these brief moments of inspiration, insight, and invitations to prayer? Now, you can do exactly that with …

Brown Wood bead Pope Benedict Rosary. Length 21in"

Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today is a precious gift of Wisdom. It explains how providential are the trials through which the Catholic Church is now passing. The need of the Papal Primacy to ensure Christian unity; the true meaning of the Priesthood as a sacrament and not a mere ministry; the necessity of the Eucharist as the Sacrifice of the Savior now offering Himself on …

Proclaim your faith in style with this Catholic to the Max Dog Tag.  Image is vibrantly press-heated onto sturdy, quality metal and hung on a beaded metal chain which can separate for easier removal.

The new encyclical from Pope Benedict XVI - released from Rome in early July 2009. This paperback edition will be shipping from the publisher on July 20, 2009. In Charity inTruth (Caritas in Veritate), Pope Benedict XVI shares his thoughts on social justice. In his third encycylical, the Holy Father reminds us of the importance of recognizing the social and economic needs of all people. He …

Available August 15, 2009 Benedict XVI has something for everyone in Charity in Truth —from praising profit to defending the environment, from calling for a role for government in the economy to insisting on the necessity of moral transformation and “gratuitousness” in economic life, from the issue of immigration to the importance of technology. However, he also insists on …

This book is a valuable reference book for the Apostolic Journey to the U.S. in 2008. Pope Benedict XVi's visit to the United Sattes was met with great enthusiasm, hope, and joy, and is sure to inspire Catholics for years to come. Now, in commemoration of this significant event, this book gathers together in one volume the complete set of Pope Benedict's addresses, speeches, and homilies …

This is the Official Commemorative book on Pope Benedict’s 2008 apostolic visit to the USA April 15 – 20.  This lavishly illustrated, large-size edition, has dozens of fabulous photos of all the papal visit venues during his historic visit, with inspiring, informative commentary on the various papal events, and also includes the texts all the Pope’s addresses, homilies, …

We're very proud to feature this commemorative t-shirt of Pope Benedict's Apostolic Journey "Christ Our Hope" to the U.S. in April 2008. Show your loyalty to your Catholic faith and to our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, with this special edition concert tour style t-shirt.    This is the medium size shirt. All shirts are 100% cotton and 110% Catholic!!!

We're very proud to feature this commemorative t-shirt of Pope Benedict's Apostolic Journey "Christ Our Hope" to the U.S. in April 2008. Show your loyalty to your Catholic faith and to our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, with this special edition concert tour style t-shirt.    This is the large size shirt. All shirts are 100% cotton and 110% Catholic!!!

We're very proud to feature this commemorative t-shirt of Pope Benedict's Apostolic Journey "Christ Our Hope" to the U.S. in April 2008. Show your loyalty to your Catholic faith and to our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, with this special edition concert tour style t-shirt.    This is the extra large size shirt. All shirts are 100% cotton and 110% …

We're very proud to feature this commemorative t-shirt of Pope Benedict's Apostolic Journey "Christ Our Hope" to the U.S. in April 2008. Show your loyalty to your Catholic faith and to our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, with this special edition concert tour style t-shirt.    This is the small size shirt. All shirts are 100% cotton and 110% Catholic!!!

We're very proud to feature this commemorative t-shirt of Pope Benedict's Apostolic Journey "Christ Our Hope" to the U.S. in April 2008. Show your loyalty to your Catholic faith and to our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, with this special edition concert tour style t-shirt.    This is the double extra large (2XL) size shirt. All shirts are 100% cotton …

Noticing how often the new Pope had the topic of “joy” as the central theme of his many addresses, Murphy delved into the vast writings of the Pope, before and after his election to the papacy, and found that the theme of joy has pervaded all of his theology. Recognizing the Pope’s invitation to joy as a key to understanding his basic theological vision, Murphy develops those …

  Spend this Christmas in the good company of the Holy Fathers - the Popes through the Ages “I am an old Christmas person and cannot imagine a more spiritual and impressive way than spending the Christmas season with the popes. This is a marvelous book to give anyone who has a real sense of the Church and of the significance of the teachings of the bishops of Rome. I highly …

This work features the most discussed topics of the life of the Church, treated with unique frankness and depth by the Church’s spiritual and theological leader. In this collection of essays, theologian Joseph Ratzinger, now Benedict XVI, tackles three major issues in the Church today—the nature of the Church, the pursuit of Christian unity, and the relationship of Christianity to …

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Cardinal Ratzinger offers selected passages from his profound spiritual and theological writings as meditations for each day of the year. He picked the title of this book from verse 8 in the third letter of St. John, which he also adapted for his coat of arms: ``Co-Workers of the Truth." Just as these words signify for St. John the participation of all the faithful in …

Coming Together in Joy distills Pope Benedict’s counsel from his many years of Truth-searching and study, prayer and reflection, priestly ministry and service to the Church. These 99 short reflections guide us on a journey along various aspects of the Christian faith, such as the bond between reason and belief, Mary, the Eucharist, social justice and evangelization. Ever alert to the …

Popular Catholic author Mike Aquilina’s encyclopedic knowledge of the Church Fathers intersects seamlessly with Pope Benedict XVI’s insightful reflections about them in this faith-building companion guide. It shows that the Fathers are much more than wise men from ages past who sacrificed their lives for what they believed: they are teachers and philosophers, orators and pastors, …

"A superb introduction to the way in which the theology of Pope Benedict XVI has been shaped by the Bible. Hahn's crisp and clear analysis puts the reader at the very center of this remarkable pope's thought."--Gary Anderson, University of Notre Dame Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's election as Pope Benedict XVI brought a world-class biblical theologian to the papacy. There is an …

In 2005 the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn wrote a guest editorial in The New York Times that sparked a worldwide debate about “Creation and Evolution”. Pope Benedict XVI instructed the Cardinal to study more closely this problem and the current debate between “evolutionism” and “creationism,” and asked the yearly gathering of his …

What do Christians believe? What gives meaning to our life? What is the purpose of life? The Christian answer to these questions is found in the Creed, in the profession of faith. But what do the articles of this confession actually mean? And how to they affect our lives? Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, takes a fresh look at these timeless questions. This work is a reflection of the …

Daughter Zion Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Daughter Zion explores the biblical witness to the Church's Marian dogmas?Mary’s role as Mother of God, her virginity, the Immaculate Conception, and her Assumption into heaven. Cardinal Ratzinger examines how these beliefs are linked to the Church’s faith in Jesus Christ. Far from competing with the truth about Christ, the Church’s Marian beliefs …

Two of the world's great contemporary thinkers — theologian and churchman Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, and Jürgen Habermas, philosopher and Neo-Marxist social critic — discuss and debate aspects of secularization, and the role of reason and religion in a free society. These insightful essays are the result of a remarkable dialogue between the two men, sponsored by …

All of us have at one time or another wrestled with the problem of evil; few of us have not experienced in themselves the predicament of Job. Others have been consumed by the question: What is time? Some have cried that more attention be given the individual, specifically to women. Still others harbor a deep fear of the word "Americanize." In one way or another the foregoing …

White smoke, the bells from St. Peter's and the announcement "Habemus Papam!" Join Raymond Arroyo and Fr. Richard John Neuhaus as they guide us through the announcement of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger as the first Pope elected during the third millennium. Also includes the first Urbi et Orbi addres of Pope Benedict XVI on the evening of of April 19, 2005. 2 hrs.

A superb introduction to the essential writings and teachings of Pope Benedict XVI. On April 24, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, the twenty-first-century successor of the Apostle Peter and the spiritual leader of more than one billion Roman Catholics. Who is this complex man whose office grants him sole charge of the world's largest religion? How will his tenure …

Available Spring 2009 Foreword by James Schall, S.J. Increasingly, the future is becoming a theme for theological reflection. In the background we can detect a growing concern among many people for the future of faith. Does faith have any future at all, and, if so, where in all the confusion of today's trends will we discover its embryo? But the problem of the future assails not only the …

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Are liturgy and prayer important in an age of political crisis and technological manipulation of human life?  Yes, declares Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI.  Genuine worship of God involves the sacred liturgy and prayer.  Only if man authentically worships God will true human dignity be protected, and the principles and the power to resolve the …

Glass Crystal bead Pope Benedict Rosary. Length 21in

During his years as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, well-known Vatican prelate Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger has given three in-depth interviews. The first two interviews have become bestselling books: The Ratzinger Report and Salt of the Earth. Because of the tremendous reception those books received, the Cardinal agreed to do another interview with journalist Peter …

The First Encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI. Everyone needs love.  Everyone desires love.  But not everyone understands love.  In fact, love is probably the most misunderstood subject in history.  In his first encyclical, Pope Benedict sets out to help clarify the meaning of love.  He examines the nature of various kinds of love - human love and divine love, eros, …

”We have come to believe in God’s love; in these words the Christian can express the fundamental decision of his life.” So begins the first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est . To help every Catholic understand as fully as possible the content and significance of this first encyclical of our new Pope, Jimmy Akin has constructed a guide covering both the issues …

The Second Vatican Council says, "We ought to try to discover a new reverence for the Eucharistic mystery. Something is happening that is greater than anything we can do. The liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; it is the font from which all her power flows." This profound statement about the Eucharist stands at the center of this book by Cardinal …

In this book of meditations, based on a series of homilies and meditations presented and compiled by the author shortly before he became Archbishop of Munich-Freising, in 1977, theologian Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) presents his profound thoughts on the nature and person of God, building a bridge between theology and spirituality as he makes wide use of the Sacred Scriptures to …

Pope Benedict XVI had a powerful encounter with over one million youth at World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany, in August, 2005.  He also had important seperate meetings of deep significance with Jewish leaders, with Muslim leaders, and a third Ecumenical meeting with Protestant leaders.  This book includes all the texts of his talks to the youth over that five-day period, as well as …

In this book Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, presents the Word of God as a living reality in the Church. God's Word, according to Ratzinger, is encountered in the Bible, in Tradition, and through the teaching Office of the Bishop, who, through apostolic succession, is to be the servant of and witness to the divine Word. Ratzinger examines as well the relationship between the …

Cardinal Ratzinger, one of the key persons responsible for the compilation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church , offers new insights on the catechetical character and Biblical foundation of the worldwide bestselling Catechism that has had such a positive response from ordinary Catholics across the globe. But he acknowledges that the response of many theologians and "professional …

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Godfried Cardinal Daneels Franciszek Cardinal Macharski Archbishop Dermot J. Ryan "The fact that there can be long-lasting periods of decline in the Church is, unfortunately, plain enough from history.  Yet history also shows that the totality of the Church - which extends through the whole world and through all times and is held together and embodied by the …