Published anonymously in Italy on the one-year anniversary of Joseph Ratziner's election to the papacy, Against Ratzinger casued a national stir and immediately shot onto besteller lists. This volume analyses and critiques the pronouncements of Ratizinger. Addressing some of the most dramatic and pressing issues of our time, Against Ratzinger studies the pope's response to birth control, abortion and sexual abuse in the Church and charts Ratzinger's rise to power from his arrival in Rome in 1981 and addresses his close relationship with the late Pope John Paul II.