More Important Writings BY Pope Benedict(In the Pre-Pope days) Published

Thank to the great people at the Ratiznger Forum for translating this article. It can accessed at their site on this forum thread.

Let me note on that same page I have just linked they have several great articles they have picked up. Many from the foreign Press. They include:
POPE TO MEET ISRAELI PRESIDENT ON SEPT. 6

BENEDICT'S HONESTY ABOUT THE FAITH-The Pope's special charism: His passion for reason ( A translation from Vatican Radio interview with with Prof. Weiler

DISCUSSING REGENSBURG IN RIMINIH( translation of a ZENIT item in its Italian service: In Rimini: Inter-religious discussion of the Regensburg lecture)

POPE'S LETTER HAILED BY CHINESE BISHOP AND CATHOLICS DISCUSS PROSPECTS FOR SINO-VATICAN RELATIONS

ISRAEL WORKING FOR A PAPAL VISIT BY END OF 2007

Here is that article about this nifty Book , a book I hope that will be translated into English

NEW BOOK PUTS TOGETHER RATZINGER'S 'COMMUNIO' ARTICLES
Here is a translation of an item from Avvenire today: A Ratzinger treasury from 'Communio' By Elio Guerriero.

'Co-founder of the magazine Communio with Vin Balthasar and De Lubac' is a line that will be found in most biographies of Benedict XVI.

Few people, however, are likely to know how constantly the Pope has been following that initiative from 35 years ago. Personally, I remember vividly two events linking him and the magazine. On July 1, 1988, then Cardinal Ratzinger presided at the funeral obsequy for Hans Urs von Balthasar at the Hofkirche of Lucerne, Switzerland. Speaking of his theologian colleague and friend, the future Pope praised both his creative capacity and the spirit of obedience that Von Balthasar managed to keep in equilibrium, though probably with difficulty. "This obedience to thought that God allowed him to pursue ever outward...finds extremely concrete correspondence in his life," he said.

Four years later, at the Gregorian University in Rome, to mark the 20th anniversary of Communio, Cardinal Ratzinger spoke about Christian courage, and in a sort of examination of conscience, done in the name of the magazine, he asked whether during those 20 years, "Did we show enough of this courage? Or did we rather burrow ourselves behind theological erudition to show, perhaps a bit too much, that we too are up to the times?" One can confirm Ratzinger's continuing active interest in Communio by the number of articles he contributed over the years, which have now been collected together in a special volume which allows us to follow the evolution of his thought. The book is La vita di Dio per gli uomini. Scritti per Communio,(The life of God for the sake of man. Writings for Communio), Joseph Ratzinger, JACA Book 2007, 350 pp. Euro 32.00).

It is divided into three parts: 'To dwell in love', "Obedience of thought', and 'Peace, work of love'. But the internal unity of his writing is so solid that the difference between doctrinal documents and those which have a celebratory nature is hardly perceptible.

The light that illumines everything is Jesus Christ, whom Ratzinger invites us to contemplate with a sentence from St. John that he particularly likes: "They will look on him whose side they have pierced." According to Ratzinger, the believer sees the work of the Father on the Cross, perceiving that "Jesus lived from something different, that his entire being is a sort of exchange, that he comes from the Father and gives back to the Father." And that the circle closes with the Holy Spirit who is common to both Father and Son, and whose essence is, in fact, to be the 'communio' between the two other Persons of the Trinity." He continues that in looking at Christ on the Cross, we see that blood and water flow from his pierced side - 'a river of living water which generates and fecundates the Church and its sacramental life'.

One of the principal features of the collection - the first article is from 1972, the last from 2005 - is precisely the presence of a series of articles on the sacraments, constituting almost an unpublished text of sacramental theology. The accent is on the Eucharist and with the sense of the Sunday liturgical celebration, but there are also two precious homilies on Confirmation and Matrimony. Avvenire, 23 agosto 2007