The Lord Holds Us by the Hand: Private Homilies, Seasons and Feasts

What did Pope Benedict XVI teach and preach when he was out of the limelight, behind closed doors, among friends? In his late years, after the noise of the papacy had quieted down, how did he understand Scripture, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the Christian life? When he had the room to be vulnerable, what did he say about the heart of his own spirituality?

In The Lord Holds Us by the Hand, we experience a different side of Joseph Ratzinger. This collection of private homilies--all delivered off the public record in small chapels, during his years as pope and pope emeritus--reveals not a "detached exegete", as his longtime secretary Archbishop G