A Cardinal and a layman - meeting in the Tyrolean Alps for an interview of several days. Ratzinger responded with extreame candor to Messori's many questions - including the most controversial. It is the longest and most complete interview with a head of a Congregation whose name has been linked for centuries with mystery and secrecy.

Written in 1985, this interview still holds an interesting insight inside the head of Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI.

A required reading for many seminarians today.