President Obama and his wife Michelle extended their thanks and prayers to the pope. And German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Pope Benedict remains one of the most significant religious thinkers of our time. I’m Christopher Cruise.
We are looking at the life and times of Pope Benedict the 16th on As It Is. I’m June Simms.
Pope Benedict was born Joseph Ratzinger in 1927 in the German town of Passau. He grew up in Nazi, Germany when Adolf Hitler served as its ruler. His father was a police officer. Young Joseph joined the Hitler Youth organization in 1941 at a time when all German boys were required to do so. He said he left the group as World War Two was ending.
Joseph studied at a Catholic seminary after the war. He became a clergyman in 1951. He taught theology at several universities from 1959 to 1966. In 1977, he became a Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Munich.
In 1981, Pope John-Paul II named Cardinal Ratzinger the head of the Vatican office that enforces church theology and rules -- the powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
In 2005, Cardinal Ratzinger was 78 years old when he was chosen by his fellow cardinals to take the place of Pope John Paul. He was the first German pope in nearly a thousand years. And he was only the second non-Italian elected pope in more than 500 years. With his resignation, he becomes the first pope to resign since Pope Gregory 12th in 1415.
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