In September 1996, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly known as the Holy Inquisition), addressed a group of 80 Catholic bishops about the central threat to the Christian faith today. He said that whereas ten years earlier this had been (in his view) Liberation Theology, it was now Relativism. The original text of the Cardinal's address is in German, and the English translation was published in the Catholic Origins, CNS Documentary Service (Vol. 26, no. 20, 31 October 1996). The following section deals with my own particular version of religious pluralism. (The footnotes do not all have the same numbers as in the original text because sections on other topics are omitted here.) After criticizing Liberation Theology again, Cardinal Ratzinger continued: