Joseph Ratzinger, who died today at the age of 95 ... He was born in Marktl am Inn, in the heart of Catholic Bavaria, on April 16, 1927. A refined theologian, a great scholar, a shy man, he ...

Bavaria is the land of Benedictine monasteries ... In his book Values in a Time of Upheaval, Cardinal Ratzinger reflected on what stood at the roots of a united Europe. At the top of the list ...

While Benedict has a place in the heart of this very Catholic corner of Bavaria and there was national ... faulted the then-Cardinal Ratzinger's handling of four cases. Benedict, who turned ...

Ratzinger, who grew up in rural Bavaria during the rise of the Nazi ... of Munich and Freising and on June 1977, he was named Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria Consolatrice al Tiburtino by Pope ...

Benedict was born Joseph Ratzinger on April 16, 1927, in Bavaria. He came of age in Germany ... the five-year-old Ratzinger declared he would become a cardinal. "It was the way the cardinal ...

Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany ... In 2020, at the age of 93, when already frail, Benedict returned to Bavaria, Germany for four days to visit Georg, who was seriously ...

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has been elected as the Pope - the head of the ... was born in 1927 into a traditional farming family in Bavaria, Germany, although his father was a policeman. The future ...

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was chosen to succeed Pope John ... Benedict was born in Germany’s Bavaria in 1927 and was drawn to the church early in life. His family opposed Nazi rule, but the ...

1969-77: Ratzinger returns to Bavaria to teach at the University of ... Pope John Paul I greets Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Munich and Freising, the future Pope Benedict XVI, during the ...

Ratzinger was born in Bavaria in 1927, was raised in a devout Catholic family, and wanted to be a cardinal from the age of five. He became a priest and then a highly touted theologian, was ...

While Benedict has a place in the heart of this very Catholic corner of Bavaria and there was national ... faulted the then-Cardinal Ratzinger’s handling of four cases. Benedict, who turned ...