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Benedict XVI's Biography Published

2005-04-22T17:01:00.001-07:00

Do you want to know your new pope? Here is his biography published by Ratzingerfanclub who thanks Professor Emeritus Donald D. Hook for his assistance in composing this biography.

Get to know the man who is blessed and selected for this great position.

"1927 Ratzinger is born on April 16, Holy Saturday in Marktl am Inn, and is baptized the same day. Reflecting on this experience in his memoirs, he says:
To be the first person baptized with the new water was seen as a significant act of Providence. I have always been filled with thanksgiving for having had my life immersed in this way in the Easter Mystery . . . the more I reflect on it, the more this seems fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still waiting for Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust. [p. 8, Milestones]
Ratzinger admits it is not easy to say what his 'hometown' is. As a rural policeman, his father was transferred frequently, and his family was continually on the road.

1929 Ratzinger's family moves to Tittmoning, a small town on the Salzach River, on the Austrian border.
1932 December: Due to his father's outspoken criticism of the s, Ratzinger's family is forced to relocate to Auschau am Inn, at the foot of the Alps.
1937 Ratzinger's father retires and his family moves to Hufschlag, outside the city of Traunstein, where Josef would spend most of his years as a teenager. Here he begins classes at the local gymnasium for classical languages, where he studies Latin and Greek.
1939 Ratzinger enters the minor seminary in Traunstein, the initial step of his ecclesiastical career.
1943 Ratzinger, along with the rest of his seminary class, is drafted into the Flak [anti-aircraft corps]. He is still allowed to attend classes at the Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich three days a week.
1944 September: Having reached military age, Ratzinger is released from the Flak and returns home, only to be drafted into labor detail under the infamous Austrian Legion ("fanatical ideologues who tyrannized us without respite").
November: Ratzinger undergoes basic training with the German infantry. Due to illness he finds himself exempt from most of the rigors of military duty.
1945 Spring (end of April or beginning of May): As the Allied front draws closer, Ratzinger deserts the army and heads home to Traunstein. When the Americans finally arrive at his village, they choose to establish their headquarters in the Ratzinger house. Josef is identified as a German soldier and incarcerated in a POW camp.
June 19: Ratzinger is released and returns home to Traunstein, followed by his brother Georg in July.

November: Ratzinger and his brother Georg re-enter the seminary.
1947 Ratzinger enters the Herzogliches Georgianum, a theological institute associated with the University of Munich.
1951 June 29: Georg and Josef Ratzinger are ordained into the priesthood by Cardinal Faulhaber, in the Cathedral at Freising, on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul.
1953 July: Ratzinger receives his doctorate in theology from the University of Munich. In connection with his doctoral studies he produces his first important work: Volk und Haus Gottes in Augustins Lehre von der Kirche [People and House of God in Augustine's doctrine of the Church].
Ratzinger devotes his Habilitationsschrift -- book-length contribution to original research in order to teach at the university level -- to Bonaventure's theology of history and revelation.

1959 April 15: Ratzinger begins lectures as full professor (one holding a chair) of fundamental theology at the University of Bonn.

Dec. 16: Ratzinger's mother passes away.
1966 Ratzinger takes a second chair in dogmatic theology at the University of Tübingen. His appointment is vigorously supported and secured by fellow professor Hans Küng. Ratzinger had initially met Küng in 1957 at a congress of dogmatic theologians in Innsbruck, after recently reviewing Küng's doctoral work on Karl Barth. Says Ratzinger:
I had many questions to ask of this book because, although its theological style was not my own, I had read it with pleasure and gained respect for its author, whose winning oppenness and straightforwardness I quite liked. A good personal relationship was thus established, even if soon after . . . a rather serious argument began between us about the theology of the council. [Milestones, p. 135]
1968 A wave of student uprisings sweeps across Europe, and Marxism quickly becomes the nt intellectual system at Tübingen, indoctrinating not only his students but many of the faculty as well. Witnessing the subordination of religion to Marxist political ideology, Ratzinger observes:
There was an instrumentalization by ideologies that were tyrannical, brutal, and cruel. That experience made it clear to me that the abuse of faith had to be resisted precisely if one wanted to uphold the will of the Council [Salt of the Earth].

On March 24, Ratzinger is named Archbishop of Munich and Freising. He is urged by his confessor to accept the office and chooses as his episcopal motto the phrase from the third letter of John, "Co-Worker of the Truth," reasoning:
For one, it seemed to be the connection between my previous task as teacher and my new mission. Despite all the differences in modality, what is involved was and remains the same: to follow truth, to be at its service. And because in today's world the theme of truth has all but disappeared, because truth appears too great for man, and yet everything falls apart if there is no truth. [Milestones, p. 153].
He is ordained May 28.

June 27 - Ratzinger is elevated to Cardinal of Munich by Pope Paul VI.
1980 Ratzinger is named by Pope John Paul II to chair the special Synod on the Laity. Shortly after, the pope asks him to head the Congregation for Catholic Education. Ratzinger declines, feeling he shouldn't leave his post in Munich too soon.
1981 On November 25, Ratzinger accepts Pope John Paul II's invitation to take over as Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith."

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Benedict XVI's Biography Published

2005-04-22T17:01:00.000-07:00

Pope Benedict XVI's Profile

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Here's what ABC.net is saying about him.

"German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who has been elected Pope, has played the role of doctrinal watchdog at the Vatican since 1981.

Under the 78-year-old's meek demeanour lies a steely intellect ready to dissect theological works for their dogmatic purity and debate fiercely against dissenters.

His traditionalist judgments have delighted fellow conservatives and outraged liberal Catholics and members of other faiths.

Born in Bavaria in 1927, Ratzinger first gained attention as a liberal theological adviser at the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). The Marxism and atheism of the 1968 student protests across Europe prompted him to become more conservative to defend the faith against growing secularism.

After stints as a leading theology professor and then archbishop of Munich, Ratzinger was appointed head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), the successor office to the Inquisition, in 1981.

In that office, Ratzinger first turned towards "liberation theology" popular in Latin America, quieting its theologians.

In 1986, he issued a firm Vatican denunciation of homosexuality and gay marriage. He brought pressure in the 1990s against theologians, mostly in Asia, who saw non-Christian religions as part of God's plan for humanity."

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NewsDay Headline: Latin Americans No Match for Ratzinger

2005-04-22T06:43:00.000-07:00

This is a great article you will enjoy reading. Many Latin American priests' names were being mentioned in the press before the Conclave.

Here's an excerpt of the article "Latin American cardinals, touted as papal contenders, appear to have posed little challenge to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger when it became time to decide, according to accounts emerging from the secret conclave.

"Many were the names of Latin American cardinals mentioned in the press as `papabili,' but in the voting, they were nowhere to be seen," Cardinal Francisco Errazuriz Ossa, archbishop of Santiago, Chile, told The Associated Press. Ratzinger was "one of the most-prepared cardinals, if not the most prepared one," Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes said at an informal news conference Thursday.

"He's a holy man, a humble man ... who, when you get down to it, wants to do the work of God, in service to humanity," said the Brazilian, whose own name was frequently mentioned as among the top papal contenders, or "papabili," as these cardinals are called by Italians.

Many of the cardinals prefaced their remarks to reporters with a caution they had no intention of breaking their mandatory vows of secrecy. Then, gushing with enthusiasm over the winner, they talked.

"Without giving anything away, I can say certainly there were Third World, Latin American concerns, not so much candidates but concerns, regarding poverty, and the church, on the side of the poor, was very much on a lot of the cardinals' minds," said British Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor."

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Welcome to Benedict Benedicto: John Paul II & Benedict XVI's Memorabilia and Books

2005-04-21T19:00:00.000-07:00

Is this new papacy the continuity of John Paul II's?

If you want to read more information about former Cardinal Ratzinger who is our current pope, please visit http://pope-benedictoxvi.blogspot.com".

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