Creative Minorities

Edited by Luis Granados and Ignacio de Ribera-Martin | Prologue by Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. | Translated by Juan Carlos Gavancho Hurtado and Michael J. Miller Normally it is creative minorities who determine the future and, in this sense, the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority that has a heritage of values that are not something of the past, but a very living and current reality. (Pope Benedict XVI) Creative Minorities: The Leaven of Christianity shows the richness of the late Pope Benedict XVI's intuition and its implications for the Church and the world.  What is the Church? In difficult times for the Church in the West, Pope Benedict XVI offered a light: the Church is always—and has always been—a “creative minority.” Featuring a new Prologue by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., and edited by Luis Granados and Ignacio de Ribera Martin (both priests of the Disciples of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary), this volume develops the Pope’s intuition