Before he was elected to become the Pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had been working as a University professor for many years, and even today he looks onto this task in a passionate way. In this article, we examine some of the Discourses and Letters focused on education that Pope Benedict XVI has addressed during the first four years of Papacy, in which the once professor, deals with matters in tight relation with education, its specific end, the difficulties that education has to face nowadays, and its main causes. These texts can be considered as valuable contributions in order to understand some aspects of the present educational crisis, that Benedict XVI describes as a moment of “educational emergency”. María García Amilburu
Key Words: Pope Benedict XVI, education, “educational emergency”, relativism, secularism.
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Nº 245, enero-abril 2010 
