Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, was a theologian, academic, writer, and historian of Christianity who understood Providence deeply. Providence is the theme of the Psalms, indeed the entirety of the Bible; it was the theme in St. Augustine’s historical works, Confessions and City of God; it was stubbornly recognized by the Renaissance humanist Montaigne; it became the life’s work of Jean-Pierre Caussade; it was recognized by American theologians and martyrs such as Michael Portier and Stanley Rother; it is revealed to us in the Marian apparitions such as Our Lady of Guadalupe; and even so brilliant a historian and scholar as Joseph Ratzinger never doubted it either: God’s presence is among us.
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