The pope also recognized a medical miracle that occurred in 2007 in a Rhode Island neonatal ICU through the intercession of ...

In 1941 he was compelled to join the Hitler Youth, and in 1943 he was drafted into the German military, serving in an antiaircraft unit in Bavaria ... Earth," then-Cardinal Ratzinger gave a ...

Apart from Benedict’s childhood friends, Cardinal Schönborn, a member of Ratzinger’s circle of ... The multilingual Australian, raised in Bavaria and South Africa, served as editor-in-chief ...

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 ...

In January 1988, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then at the height of his ... political conservative in the sense understood in post-war Bavaria, where scepticism about social “progressivism ...

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 ...

Born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger in Marktl in Upper Bavaria, Benedict joined the Hitler ... the international press began calling then-Cardinal Ratzinger by unflattering nicknames like “God ...

The day after the then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected as the first ... including a trip to his native Bavaria in 2006 and a 2011 trip in which he became the first pope to address the ...

The day after the then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected as the first ... including a trip to his native Bavaria in 2006 and a 2011 trip in which he became the first pope to address the ...