DEATH FOUND POPE BENEDICT ALIVE: Era of Unprecedented Papacy.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the former German Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger, was one of the Roman Catholic Church’s pre-eminent theologians with a long and illustrious career. Born April 16, 1927, in Marktl Am Inn, in Bavaria, Benedict, the son of a rural policeman, ‘will forever be known as the first pope in 600 years to resign.’ At age 14, against his will, he was enlisted in the Nazi youth movement but ‘deserted the German army in April 1945.’ As a result, he was imprisoned in 1945 in an American POW camp in Neu-Ulm. Benedict was ordained on June 26,...
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