"Joseph Pearce’s biography demonstrates the immense devotion and enthusiasm Pope Benedict evoked among the young disciples of Jesus around the world.
"Pope Benedict is probably the best theologian among all the popes and he should become a Doctor of the Church. Joseph Pearce’s work will help further this cause."
—George Cardinal Pell
"In an age marked by so much frenzied and false search for man’s purpose, a pope whose brilliance was exceeded only by his love of Jesus Christ directed and redirected the focus of the faithful over and over to the complimentary realities for which man was made: human friendship and divine worship. Joseph Pearce, with his customary liveliness and his rare capacity to render the complex accessible, has performed a unique and highly valuable service in revealing to the faithful the heart and mind of a pope whose magnificence never once hindered his humility."
—Christopher Check, President, Catholic Answers
"Joseph Pearce has a remarkable gift of writing about history, literature, and culture in general. His writing is objective and accessible, that is, it shows his steadfast attention to the truth and to language which manifests the same truth in its inherent beauty or natural attractiveness. . . .
"I express deepest gratitude to Joseph Pearce for his . . . tireless pursuit of the truth revealed to the heart of man by reason and by faith as it is manifest in the beautiful and the good. It is my hope that his pursuit may inspire the same pursuit in the reader, who, attracted by the beauty of the truth, will be ever more disposed to follow the truth by what is most beautiful of all, a good and holy life."
—Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke
"Joseph Pearce has a remarkable gift of writing about history, literature, and culture in general. His writing is objective and accessible, that is, it shows his steadfast attention to the truth and to language which manifests the same truth in its inherent beauty or natural attractiveness. . . .
"I express deepest gratitude to Joseph Pearce for his . . . tireless pursuit of the truth revealed to the heart of man by reason and by faith as it is manifest in the beautiful and the good. It is my hope that his pursuit may inspire the same pursuit in the reader, who, attracted by the beauty of the truth, will be ever more disposed to follow the truth by what is most beautiful of all, a good and holy life."
—Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke
