An Ever-Reforming Society This is the speech given by Cardinal Ratzinger at the Rimini Meeting for Friendship among Peoples on September 1, 1990. Its subject is the renewal of the Church, and its need to be rooted in Christ with a spirituality of wonder open to the action of God, rather than being rooted in human plans and strategies with a non-spirituality of human activism. This is one of a dozen texts included in Robert Cardinal Sarah's outstanding appreciation of Benedict XVI, published by Ignatius Press in 2023 and available for purchase through this link: He Gave Us So Much: A Tribute to Benedict XVI. Ignatius Press gave permission for the use of their translation here.