Tangaza Update(Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Elected 265 Pope)
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2005-04
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
Joseph Ratzinger was born April 16, 1927; in
Marktl am Inn, a town in southern Germany. His
father was a police officer who came from a
family of farmers. Here, Ratzinger is pictured in
his German army uniform during World War II
after he was drafted In 1943. He served for a
time in an anti-aircraft unit that tracked Allied bombing raids. He deserted in the waning months of
the war and returned to Traunstein,. where he
had grown up. U.S. troops took him prisoner, but
he was released in June 1945. He returned to
his hometown and resumed his studies as a seminarian .
Ratzinger was ordained as a priest in 1951 after
studying philosophy and theology at the University of Munich and at another school in Freising.
Here he poses with his family following his ordination, standing with his brother, George, left.
Seated from left are his sister, Maria, his mother,
Maria, and his father, Josef. In 1953, he received
his doctorate in theology and four years later, he
was qualified as a university teacher, teaching
dogma and fundamental theology at four German universities
As a young priest, Ratzinger was on the progressive side of theological debates and served
under Cardinal Josef Frings, the reform-minded
archbishop of Cologne, Germany. Here, he lec
tures in Freising in 1955. Later, he served as a
consultant to Frings during Vatican II in 1962.
In March 1977. Pope Paul VI named Ratzinger
archbishop 01 Munich and Freising and elevated
him to cardinal a month later. He was the first
diocesan priest after GO years to take over the
pastoral ministry of the large Bavarian diocese .
Here, the new archbishop greets hundreds of
well-wishers on his arrival in Munich on May 23,
1977
Once the archbishop of Munich and for
many years prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith,
Ratzinger, 78, was widely acknowledged as a leading theologian before
the College of Cardinals elected him
as the successor to John P
Ratzinger served for 20 years as his
chief theological adviser. As a young
priest he was on the progressive side
of theological debates but shifted to the
right after the student revolutions of
1968. In the Vatican, he has been the
driving force behind crackdowns on liberation theology, religious pluralism,
challenges to traditional moral teachings on issues such as homosexuality, and dissent on such issues as
women's ordination. The dean of the
College of Cardinals since November
2002, he was elevated to cardinal by
Pope Paul VI in June 1977
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Elected, Pope, Joseph Ratzinger