Every time a pope enters the Sistine Chapel,
Michelangelo's frescoes remind him
that he will have to answer to God for his leadership
of the Catholic Church.
That's why it's here that the church holds the meetings
or conclaves to elect the successor of the apostle
Peter.
Joseph Ratzinger entered this sacred hall as a cardinal
and walked out, Pope Benedict XVI.
Annunceo vobis gaudium manium.
Today, the great Papa Giovanni Paolo Secondo and Mr. Cardinal Anno Eretome
are together to build a laboratory in the city of Signore.
The pope's first decision is to choose a new name, which indicates the style of his pontificate.
Radzinger chose Benedict, a 4th century saint who preserved and passed on the culture of
the ancient world through his monasteries.
Christianity in that world was a kind of small presence but it was a small
presence that had a large impact because of its passion its commitment and its
unity and I think
this Pope Benedict sees the contemporary situation of Christianity in something
of the same way. The world in which the church set the tone, the world in which
the church dominated the culture is over.
But the new name also evoked memories of a pope who had governed the Catholic Church 90 years earlier, Benedict XV.
I remember Pope Benedict XV said courage is a prophet of peace, who guided the Church
through turbulent times of war.
In his footsteps, I placed my ministry in the service of reconciliation and harmony
between peoples.
Pope Benedict XVI is from Germany, the key player in the last two world wars.
Yet he began his pontificate taking the name of a defender of peace.
Benedict XV warned the countries involved in World War I that it was a useless slaughter.
And once it was over, he urged the victors not to humiliate their adversaries.
But they didn't heed his advice.
And Germany's wounds never completely healed.
Twenty years later, World War II broke out.
In September of 1939, Hitler invaded Poland.
Joseph Ratzinger was just 12 years old, but witnessing his parents suffering, he knew that tough times lay ahead.
The Ratzinger family was anti-Nazi from the beginning. His father actually resigned.
He took early retirement as a policeman to avoid being sucked into the brownshirts
and being sucked into the National Socialist Movement.
By now Hitler had already silenced almost every free voice in Germany.
Those who didn't agree with the regime disappeared off the map.
Then Hitler intensified propaganda, militarized life in the country
and forced children older than 10 to join Nazi youth groups.
It's very hard to understand how totalitarian societies, how they grab, I mean that's they know that the treasure of the pair of
Every family's other children, so they want to have the children
The young Joseph Ratzinger was involuntarily enrolled in the Hitler Youth, that is, he
was enrolled against his will.
And as a matter of fact, he never went to a Hitler Youth meeting and he never picked
up his membership card.
The Führer intended to turn German culture into a one that was fanatically Nazi.
As the regime organized book burnings and sent intellectuals to concentration camps,
the young Joseph discovered classical Greek and Latin literature.
From July 1944 until May 1945, more people died in this war than all the other years from 1939 to 1944.
So it was a horrible story and it was a total mobilization of Hitler.
And he took Volksjöm and men, they took the old, they took the children, they took everybody.
In 1943, the Nazi regime forced young people to join the anti-aircraft artillery.
Joseph Ratzinger, then 16 years old, became an aide in an anti-air battery near Munich.
He told them that as a child he'd always been weak and thin, that he wasn't very strong
and that he was only good at math.
It seems calculations had to be done at some point.
He wasn't able to carry munitions because they were too heavy for him.
So he did the lighter work.
When he returned to Munich, he suffered seeing shattered lives and houses in ruins.
He felt the same desolation months later in Vienna and Salzburg,
two cities he loved for their culture and musical tradition.
One night in the barracks, recruits were woken up abruptly and ordered to line up.
One official called them one by one and asked them if they wanted to join the SS voluntarily.
Joseph said no, since he wanted to be a priest.
The SS official and his fellow soldiers insulted and mocked him.
Toward the end of the war, Joseph deserted the military even though he knew he risked being shot immediately if discovered.
He even ran into a patrol that since his arm was bandaged, they let him go.
A few months later, the Allied forces arrested him in his house and put him in an open-air camp for prisoners of war, along with 50,000 ex-soldiers.
In his bag, he carried a pen and a notebook.
He distracted himself by writing poetry in classical Greek.
He took solace in seeing the faraway towers of the Cathedral of Ulma.
That view reminded him of the humanity of religious faith,
in the face of the brutality of those years.
He has gone through the experience of war and of humiliation.
And when everything collapses,
When that word, it was false, collapses, what remains?
What can you do in order to preserve the respect for yourself?
We could say that when everything was destroyed in Germany,
what remained were the cathedrals.
Nazism had destroyed the country. Later, Soviet communism, also based on lies and abuse, would turn the eastern half of Germany into a prison.
All these life-changing events reinforced young Joseph's desire to dedicate his life to spreading truth and peace.
At that time, every soldier coming back from the war had to prove that he had a job, to
ensure that no one was idle, but that everyone participated in rebuilding the country which
was largely destroyed.
The rector of the seminary said, to avoid going somewhere far away, where you are not
feeling at home, why don't you come here and rebuild the seminary?
We have plenty of work for you.
And so my brother and I went to the seminary and helped to clean and repair it.
Those years ended in what he describes as the most important day in his life.
It was June 29th, 1951, the feasts of St. Peter and Paul.
Cardinal Fahlhaber, whose solemn character and fervent opposition to the Nazis had made such an impression on him,
laid his hands on young Joseph and ordained him a priest.
From the beginning, Joseph stood out because of his gift for teaching.
His bishop soon asked him to teach future priests.
At the same time, Joseph began to prepare for an entry exam to teach at the university.
Little by little, his dream of being a professor was becoming a reality.
But an academic setback nearly upset all his plans.
Ratzinger presented a paper to the University on St. Bonaventure.
But a famous professor challenged it because he considered the thesis too innovative.
That rejection would mean not being able to teach in the university.
Ratzinger solved the problem by presenting the less controversial chapters.
The tribunal unanimously accepted his work.
A testament to its academic validity.
and so began a time in his life that he fondly remembers the years he spent as a university professor.
In 1959, he became the chair of the Department of Theology at the University of Bonn.
And he wasn't cut out to be a bon vivant, you know, he wasn't a very social butterfly
and so on.
Where he felt most at home was with books and an intellectual conversation.
I think he felt that's where he could make his contribution.
The reputation of the young professor soon reached the ears of the Cardinal
from Cologne, Joseph Frings. He called him as his theological advisor during the
Second Vatican Council convened by Pope John the 23rd to open the windows to let
fresh air into the church.
Cardinal Frings and Joseph Ratzinger lived here in the Austro-German College in Rome, close to Piazza Navona.
The council appointed the young theologian as an expert.
He worked on one of the great church documents, the Dogmatic Constitution on Sacred Scripture and Revelation,
and it made him a star in theology circles.
In 1965, Pope Paul VI closed the council and the Catholic Church began to apply its teaching.
After Vatican II, Pope Paul VI said that there were two German-speaking theologians that he had met at the Council who would be heard from in the future.
One was the Swiss theologian Hans Kung. The other was the German theologian Joseph Ratzen.
After the council, Radziger went back to life as a professor.
By now, he was teaching at the University of Tübingen.
The winds of the student revolution of 1968, widespread in all of Europe, finally
hit the peaceful city. University groups sought to forcefully impose their ideas
and even block professors from entering lecture halls. Professor Ratzinger felt
this climate made real debate based on truth and mutual respect impossible.
And it was an echo and it really horrified him, certainly horrified him and I mean they
came under the sign of liberation, evolutionary liberation, but he knew quite well what it
sounded like.
I mean the silence was much more Nazi-like than many of the leaders of them had Nazi
parents and so it was much more of a totalitarian movement than anything to do with liberation.
Searching for real academic freedom, he moved to the University of Regensburg in Bavaria where his brother and sister lived.
Regensburg is a picturesque city on the Danube River with deep roots in music.
For years, his brother Georg directed the famous boys' choir of the cathedral.
After 10 years, when he reached intellectual maturity and was able to make a lasting contribution
to theology, Pope Paul VI asked him to make a great sacrifice, to give up his academic
career to become Archbishop of Munich.
Indeed, it was a difficult decision, since he was at the pinnacle of his academic career
and was convinced that he'd make a better professor than Bishop.
But he accepted.
He was 50 years old, very young for an Archbishop of Munich and Freising, and at the same time
he was chairman of the Freising Bishops Conference.
We are going to be traveling.
At first we were of course sad, not as one would think that one would be happy and jump for joy.
On the contrary, we knew of course that our fraternal community could no longer be the same,
but that there would be a separation of sorts.
After spending 25 years searching for and explaining the truth as a professor,
he chose a motto for his coat of arms that defined his mission,
Cooperatoris Veritatis, co-workers of the truth.
He went on teaching the truth not at the university, but in the cathedral.
During those years, the philosopher Josef Pieper advised him to write to a young Polish bishop.
a hero of the resistance movement against Nazism and communism, a certain Karol Wojtyla.
Ratzinger sent his book Introduction to Christianity to Krakow, and Karol Wojtyla quoted
from it during the spiritual exercises he preached to Paul VI. Ratzinger and Wojtyla
continued to exchange books over the years as they assumed greater responsibilities
as cardinals of Munich and Krakow.
But their first personal encounter didn't take place until the conclave after the death of Paul VI in 1978.
After four rounds of voting, the Cardinals elected the Patriarch of Venice, Albino Luciani.
He took the name John Paul I.
in honor of his two predecessors, John XXIII and Paul VI.
The world called Luciani the Smiling Pope,
and he surprised everyone with a new style of leadership.
During general audiences, he used to call on children and invite them to ask him questions.
I'm frightened.
I can't believe it.
His pontificate is one of the shortest in history,
lasting only 33 days.
His death moved the world, and the Cardinals
went back to the Sistine Chapel to elect
another successor to Peter.
This time, eight rounds of voting were necessary.
John Paul II came from Poland. He was 58 years old. If philosopher, yet young and athletic,
he was the ideal pope to take the new evangelization to the world through countless trips.
The new pope contacted the Archbishop of Munich. He wanted him by his side as
prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Ratsinger only
asked for one thing, permission to continue writing books. John Paul II
granted his request and even encouraged him to continue his personal
theological research.
Their joint effort led to encyclicals such as Veritatis Splendor on morality, and Fides
et Ratzio on the complementary nature between faith and reason.
But his work is prefect turned Ratzinger into somewhat of a villain.
One thing about being prefect of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith is that by definition
It makes you the doctor know of the Catholic Church. That is it is your job to say no
Ratzinger had to respond to the traditionalist theologians who refused to accept Vatican II.
At the same time, he also had to deal with those who preached liberation theology,
which promoted a class struggle in the name of God.
Cardinal Ratzinger participated in that criticism as I do,
that we're silencing people as if that's an intention to silence them.
Actually,
the work that we do with regard to defending
Catholic teaching, Catholic doctrine.
As Cardinal, as prefect of the famous Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,
he wanted to protect and defend, to preserve the faith,
above all for simple people.
John Paul II and Joseph Ratzinger embarked upon the so-called purification of memory.
They asked for forgiveness for the practical errors of the Catholic Church throughout history.
In 1984, they restored Galileo's name, 340 years after an erroneous condemnation.
During Lent and the year 2000, John Paul II presided over an historic ceremony in which
he asked pardon for the faults of the past. Cardinal Ratzinger was at his side.
The only way to get that done is to make the world a better part of the country.
I am not a non-evanchial teacher.
I am not a part of the world.
I am not a part of it.
Pope John Paul II had asked him to deal with complaints of sexual abuse by priests in the United States.
From Rome, Cardinal Ratzinger oversaw the canonical processes that led to the expulsion of priests who were found guilty.
He dreamed of spending his later years studying in the Vatican Library and writing a book on Jesus of Nazareth.
He presented his resignation to John Paul II three times, but every time the Pope rejected it.
And as Cardinal Deacon, he was to assume a key role during the last few months and days of John Paul's life.
On the night of February 1st, 2005, John Paul II suffered serious breathing problems, and
the doctors admitted him to Rome's Jim
Hundreds of people flocked to the hospital, leaving him gifts and greeting him from below his window.
In mid-March, the Pope went home to the Vatican, but his aides soon announced he would not participate in any of the Holy Week's ends.
He asked Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to write the text of the traditional way of the cross at the Colosseum.
The Pope followed the ceremony from his Vatican chapel while clutching a cross.
In one of his meditations, Ratzinger asked forgiveness for the sins of Catholic priests.
It's difficult to experience this era for democracy.
I am going to have something simple because I want to take home everything.
I want to be able to understand everything.
From his window, an exhausted John Paul II greeted crowds three days before his death.
It was the last time the world saw him alive.
The news of his condition spread.
His spokesperson was overcome with emotion.
I am not going to be able to do this, I am not going to be able to do this.
Thousands of people rushed to St. Peter's Square to be as close to the Pope as they could.
On Saturday, April 2nd, while thousands of people prayed the rosary in St. Peter's Square,
the world received the news.
and the K'enostro cilantro, the orante, the compagni, the primimo menti,
thegenre, the el santo padre, Giovanni Paolo Secondo, the conchristo, the hell chain.
As dean of the College of Cardinals,
Dose of Ratzinger presided at the moving ceremonies
during those days, including the state funeral,
attended by leaders from all over the world
who put aside differences to honor John Paul.
The strong wind blew through St. Peter's Square as if nature too was saying it's goodbye to the public.
Because Yamo is a zikuri, he knows the amount of purpose that is alafinistra, dila casa, dila padre.
Chivéde, Chibémedic, Si, Chibémedic, Santo Padre.
Śānta madhyamā thiradeṣaṇa
A few days later, 115 Cardinals entered the Sistine Chapel to elect a new Pope.
Every Cardinal swore on the Bible to vote for the person he thought best to run the Catholic
Church.
Before the Conclave, some Cardinals asked Ratzinger to accept the position where he
to be elected.
He thought himself too old and not strong enough to be Pope.
He was 78 years of age.
He figured he was out of the running since there were many younger Cardinals who were
well-prepared to assume the responsibility.
The doors of the Sistine Chapel closed and voting began.
After three rounds, or scrutiny's, and two black smokes indicating no clear winner,
Grey's smoke began to billow from the Sistine Chapel's chimney.
Then slowly, it became white.
We are going to take a look at the animals.
I no longer went to answer the phone because it rang and rang, and always there were journalists
on the other end, asking the same questions a hundred times.
But Frau Heidel went to answer it, and suddenly she recognized that at the other end of the
line there was the Holy Father.
When I finally talked to him, there was nothing different about it.
Our fraternal relationship has not really changed.
It was just my brother, and we spoke as we always have.
His first visit as Pope was not to the papal apartments, but to his colleagues at the congregation
for the doctrine of the faith, where he worked for 23 years.
They received him with applause and a cake.
I would like to thank you to all of you who have been here for a long time.
Thank you very much.
That same day, he went to his old house to prepare his first speeches.
He said goodbye to his neighbors, almost all fellow cardinals, and greeted hundreds of
Romans who were waiting to see the new Pope up close.
A few days later, heads of state and leaders from all over the world attended a mass inaugurating
his pontificate, an emotional rite that began a few steps from the tomb of St. Peter the
Apostle.
Benedict was the successor of Peter number 264.
During the ceremony, he received symbols of the papacy, the fisherman's ring, to put
his seal on Pontifical documents, and the symbol of the good shepherd, the pallium made
of sheepswall.
This time, it was a pallium identical to what was used in the first millennium before the
division of Christians.
In my work program, I don't want to say that I am not a volunteer.
I want to know that I am a volunteer.
I want to know that I am not a volunteer.
I would like to thank you very much for being here today and I would like to thank you very much for your attention.
After the mass, he received Germans who'd come to Rome.
He asked them to understand them if he made mistakes.
I want to say that when the things are in the way of understanding of the world,
I want to know that I should be able to know that I should know that I should know that
I should be able to see the world.
I will be able to know what I should do.
His leadership style was evident even in the new papal coat of arms.
He exchanged the triple crown, symbol of earthly power, for the mitre, symbolic of bishops.
The ancient papal states were long gone, and presenting himself as bishop opened up new ways to be united to other Christian churches.
The Darian symbols of his Episcopal coat of arms remained.
The more of rising and the bare of St. Corbinian, the first bishop of rising.
The shell is the symbol of the pilgrim and of faith.
It harked back to another lover of truth, St. Augustine of Hippo, the saint to whom the
Pope feels very close.
Augustine was a man who wanted to dedicate his life to study and was called to
serve the needs of the church and it's almost as if Pope Benedict when he said
that was reflecting in his own life what happened to Augustine, how he himself as
he crossed the age of 75 and then 78 was hoping to dedicate the rest of his life
to study and was called to serve the churches as universal pastors, our Holy
Father.
Ratzinger said that he'd take a copy of the Bible and simple Gustin's Confessions,
if stranded on a desert island.
When he visited the saint's grave in Palir, in northern Italy, he made clear the saint's
influence on his life, not only as a theologian, but also as a man and as a priest.
Sia, le mia personale de voussione iriconochenes,
a verso coloui, que tanta parti a vouto ne la muy abita de jologue de pastore.
My name is Primo Encore of Duomo, it is such a talk to you.
Popes don't include mottos in their coat of arms.
Just like John Paul II, Benedict XVI did without the motto he'd chosen when elected to the Sea of Munich,
co-workers of the truth, but his guiding principle continued to be the truth,
which he considers the solution to the world's problems.
An example is his first message for the world day of peace, in truth, peace.
He says that lies are seeds of hate and that the truth promotes peace.
Being Pope, they be the hardest job in the world.
Benedict XVI begins each day celebrating Mass in the same chapel as his predecessors.
There, before beginning his day's work, he entrusts the world's problems and all his priorities to God.
Few world leaders have so many direct lines of information as the Pope.
Every day he receives heads of state, bishops and other visitors from all over the world.
They all speak to him of pressing problems and others that are less known.
They're not all solemn moments, the visits are full of humanity.
This is the end of the question.
Thank you very much.
Bye.
Have a good day.
Thank you.
Have a good day.
Thank you.
Have a good day.
Bye.
It's successful out here.
Yes.
But it was a long night.
It was a very long night.
Every day, his secretary is bringing him a summary of the world press, and after dinner,
he watches the evening news.
Every day, he meets with Secretary of State Cardinal Tarchizio Bertone to prepare his
appointment.
statements with world leaders. Behind closed doors, he reminds them of their responsibilities
towards the weak and vulnerable in their countries. He asks for more attention to families and
greater efforts to protect the environment.
Yet, even after a few years as Pope, very few people have a feel for who he is.
he communicates better than virtually any other religious leader
one can think of and yet on the other hand
you know in terms of the mass media uh... and in terms of the world outside
the church uh... you know sometimes he is not always at the top of his game
He isn't a hero, he isn't a bad man, he isn't a Superman, so you can say like this, you can say
sometimes he's a little bit weak or he's the seeds to react immediately. He waits, he loves to wait.
He became Pope at age 78, a difficult age to become the successor of John Paul II.
Many doubted that the timid Benedict would connect to young people.
First test, World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany, in August of 2005.
When a million young people arrived on the shores of the Rhine to welcome the Pope, all
those doubts disappeared.
Cologne received masses of pilgrims who'd been camping 20 miles outside the city.
In 24 hours, the square of Marion felt turned into a city,
brimming with hundreds of thousands of young people.
Like the ancient pilgrims of old, the young people spent the night under the stars, as they
waited for Benedict XVI to come back for Sunday Mass.
Freedom is not simply about ensuring life in total autonomy but also about living by
the measure of truth and goodness so that we ourselves can become true and good.
In May of 2006, the first German pope after Nazism remembered the victims of the Holocaust
and Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.
Benedict the 16th crossed the threshold of the infamous concentration camp, on foot, alone.
Above his head hung the monstrous lie of the Nazis, the prisoners saw as they entered this place of death.
Work will set you free, a manipulation of a line from the gospel.
The truth will set you free.
All I need to discuss is...
Then, in the enormous extermination camp of Birkenau, he prayed before the memorials to the Holocaust.
Messages in the various languages of the victims
a few steps from where the crematorium ovens were located.
and in the end of the day,
there was a lot of stuff
in the innumarevaly
of the country
that was in the northern
of the northern
non-volion of provocari in Noy Laudio.
Chidimosranci, grando cieteribile, Lopra del Laudio.
Mmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm.
When he approached the last stone, a rainbow appeared in the place where the greatest mass murder in history took place.
His next trip was to Bavaria, something more than an apostolic trip since Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger defined himself as a Bavarian patriot.
He seemed to be rejuvenated when he visited the places of his childhood.
The cheerful songs of his native land, famous for its beautiful landscapes, beer,
rock art, cutting-edge technology, music, and, above all, optimism.
Then, at the 16th, made a pilgrimage to the Catholic heart of Bavaria, the shrine of Alterting.
He prayed at the feet of an image of the Black Virgin, where his father had once prayed for
the safe return of his sons, Joseph and Georg Ratzinger, during the war.
Before leaving, the Pope left his cardinal ring as a gift.
During those days' home, his only living relative, his brother Georg, accompanied him.
For a few hours, he visited his house in the Pentling neighborhood and his beloved University of Raekensburg to give a keynote lecture.
That visit to the university would be critical to his pontificate.
In a speech, he quoted the words of a Byzantine emperor, those words gravely offended Muslims.
His speech provoked protests and controversy all over the Muslim world.
The Pope clarified that he didn't want to offend anyone.
Upon his return to Rome, he immediately received ambassadors from Muslim countries.
The tension continued to grow, and some Turkish authorities suggested cancelling Benedict's
trip to Istanbul scheduled for just a few months later.
The Pope did not cancel the trip, despite concerns about what could happen on his first
visit to a country with a Muslim majority.
I had a lot of time to live in the West that I had,
and I was really happy that I was a really good girl.
I was really happy that I was a very good girl,
and I was really happy that I was a very good girl.
The first time I was in the hospital, I was in the hospital,
and I was in the hospital, and I was in the hospital.
In order to dispel any doubts, the Pope visited the majestic Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
He took off his shoes to enter and prayed to the merciful God,
facing Mecca together with the Grand Mufti.
That gesture achieved what no speech could – peaceful relations with Islam.
Thank you very much for watching, and I'll see you in the next video.
His relationship with Muslims did not begin well, but sometimes things get off to a bad start and then end well.
His words had emotional consequences, but we have to leave them to one side and forget this clash and pursue peace together.
Shortly thereafter, he received King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, the guardian of the mosques
of Mecca and Medina, and one of the greatest figureheads in the Muslim world.
It was the first time a king of Saudi Arabia visited a pope,
a promising sign for future peaceful coexistence.
However, the first objective of Benedict XVI is the search for unity among all Christians,
highlighted in his very first speech.
In Istanbul, he met with the successor of the Apostles and Andro.
Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Primus Interpares, among the Orthodox patriarchs.
He too is committed to reaching unity.
Benedict XVI renewed John Paul II's invitation to study ways of exercising the
primacy of the Pope in a way that's acceptable to other Christians. Little by
little the ice has begun to thaw. Other leaders of Orthodox churches have made
historic gestures including many
The first visit of the Orthodox Archbishop of Athens to Rome, the first visit of the Archbishop
Cyprus, and the first visit of the number two of the Russian Orthodox Church, the biggest
Orthodox Church, and also the most reticent in the dialogue with Rome.
The Pope believes this dialogue based on truth will also help solve the troubling situation
facing China's Catholics.
The hostility of the government towards the Catholic religion has created a patriotic
church controlled by the Communist Party and an underground church which is brutally persecuted.
In June 2007 the Pope sent a letter to all Catholics in China urging them to restore unity.
We admire such a balance between the passion for the truth and the loving kindness of the Holy Father to us, everybody.
In the same letter, the Pope told the Chinese government that the church is not trying to change the political regime,
but wants to establish diplomatic relations with the present government as it has with 176 countries.
But Beijing did not respond, and 24 hours after its publication, it took the letter off the Internet.
In a world marked by intolerance of those who promote the truth, Benedict the 16th
raises the flag of Professor, and he adjusts his language according to his
public.
Thank you very much.
I would like to thank the colleagues from the St. Paulist Society.
I would like to thank the colleagues from the CAC and the CAC and the CAC.
I would like to thank the colleagues from the CAC and the CAC and the CAC and the CAC.
Thank you very much.
I would like to thank you very much for being here today.
I would like to thank you very much for being here.
This man was the Darth Vader of the Catholic Church.
You know, when he walked into a room, people would hear that Imperial march from Star Wars.
You know, because he was the great disciplinarian of the Church.
Now he is the great pastor of the Church. This is the man who was writing encyclicals on love and hope.
I do think that this pope has what we call a paper trail that is endless and I'm sure
that once he gives the speeches when we look back we will find it was there all the time
but we just didn't see it.
Like every intellectual, he likes to get down to the fundamentals.
He spent a summer vacation in Northern Italy writing his first encyclical,
God Is Love.
A guide to understanding the most basic characteristic of God, and an invitation to help others through another name for love, charity.
In his second encyclical, Saved by Hope, Benedict XVI warns that a world without God is a world without hope,
and only with openness towards God can the difficulties in life take on meaning.
¿Cóme pósi béresperare?
¿Cóme do la rialtanega?
¿Oni sono de felicita?
¿Oni projecto de vita?
And of course, the speakers of the U.S.
Foundation on behalf of the U.S.
and office of the people of the U.S.
and the ETS and the U.S.
and the U.S.
in which a big board will approach it,
and that the number of certain groups
and the appropriate groups of the U.S.
That's it.
He is a man of deep reflection, and he doesn't spend much time in socializing, so to speak,
because he has the sense of his main contribution to the life of the church.
He is a doctor of the church.
Benedict thinks that many problems in the Catholic Church come from not speaking
often and cheerfully about God.
That's why he wants to remind the world that Christianity is above all something joyful
and positive.
It's the message of his first book as Pope, Jesus of Nazareth, the fruit of study and
personal meditation.
In it, he wants to remind the world of the basic element of the Gospels, that Jesus Christ
is God.
It has become extremely well-received among Lutherans.
So there are seminars in the Lutheran Seminary for Educational Pastors on this book and lots of interest.
And they are very surprised that Christ is so central to the Pope.
Sort of they have some ideas that Catholicism sort of put Christ far away from theology.
The theologian pope is also a human pope.
pundits define him as a different kind of pope.
Different but not distant.
He tells people who are suffering that he's with them, especially the sick.
The first time he went to a hospital, he went to visit his brother who was getting a pacemaker.
The poor also visited children at the Bambin Jazoo Hospital in Rome.
He greeted the children in their rooms, accepted their gifts, and consoled their parents.
He went to a soup kitchen run by the church in Rome where they invited him to come back whenever he wants.
He visited the house where Mother Teresa's nuns tend to the poor people around the Vatican.
During his moving trip to the United States, he prayed with victims of the September 11th
attacks in New York and asked for the terrorists' conversion.
While he was in the most powerful city in the world, he also requested a special meeting
with the sink.
At the shrine of Loreto in Italy, he stood up to hug Elaria, a 26-year-old who told him
that she'd suffered violence inside her family.
She explained that she became anorexic until a priest helped her both humanly and spiritually
to fight her disease.
During a visit to a drug rehab center in Brazil, the pope was visibly moved after hearing the story of a street child, Ricardo Riberini, who tried to kill himself during a crisis of withdrawal.
Amid tears, Ricardo revealed what hurt him most that his friends couldn't be with him, since drugs had killed him.
I would like to thank you for your support.
I thank you for your opportunity to come to the U.S.
A scholar who's bring cadence, who's so his, a libérdagie.
Todos, furu trocado, ospoque, spelumun, da cola, da maconia, da coca ine,
y dorka, crackin'.
Trafu jidrogas, a saouti, muy de triste, a furu quenco tres,
como hé sposta, da busque, da tao libérdagie.
He sees family life as the best means of preventing problems.
He reminded thousands of families from around the world of this in Valencia, Spain.
He said, helping families is a priority for a better future.
La familia, es un bienes cesario para los pueblos.
Un fondamento en despensabri para esos y dada,
es un bien insus ti tu y ble palos y chos.
Guillandes her fruit de la mor,
de la donación totá lígena rosatellos para.
He is not the Beethoven type, a revolutionary and a fighter.
What you can see in him is not the typical pattern of a Beethoven's fifth symphony,
a struggle of the will, the fight that passes from darkness and danger to victory.
For him instead, the key is not to miss the spiritual aspects of life, and to find joy
in it.
I think this would be the best way of characterizing his way of being.
Having lived many years, Benedict XVI knows that violence is not the right way to change the world.
He's experienced that the power of truth is much more effective.
He's convinced that art and music convey some aspects of truth better than words.
And so he searches for beauty in theology and through his love of music, which brings him closer to God.
He is a pope who relies on God.
He's an intellectual who trusts reason.
He's a man in love with truth.