Benedict 16 Biography

His present name is Joseph Aloes Ratzinger, born on April 16 on the eve of the Great Church Feast of Easter in the village of Marctl-Am-Inn in Bavaria, in the family of gendarmes. Joseph Alois Ratzinger was the third and youngest child in the family. When Joseph was two years old, the family moved to the Austrian border, and when Joseph was five years old, he and his family settled in the city of Aushau, which was in the Alpine Mountains.

At 10 years old, Joseph went to study in a classic gymnasium in Transstein. The classical gymnasium was chosen by the father, since the father was not a supporter of National Socialism. At the age of 14, Joseph Ratzinger became a member of the Nazi fascist organization. Some historians deny this fact in the biography of the Pope. Others assure that the entry into the fascist organization is not related to the separation of the ideas and plans of the Nazis, but with the fact that since December the year, joining this organization has been mandatory for all boys who had reached the age of fourteen years.

The biography of Joseph Aloes Ratzinger as the future minister of the Church began in the year. This year he becomes a student of the pre -Seminarium. During the Second World War, Joseph Ratzinger was in the youth units of air defense as auxiliary personnel. But he did not abandon his studies, continued to study in the gymnasium - Maximilians in the city of Munich.

At the age of 17, and this was a draft age for military service, Joseph Ratzinger was enrolled in the Austrian legion. Joseph Ratzinger recalls this fact in his biography with hostility. The service was not in spirit, and in the year he deserted. The biography of Joseph Ratzinger is not as simple as it seems. Having escaped from the army, the future Pope returned to Transtin. But the headquarters of the American troops and Joseph were arrested in the Ratzingers' House, and sent to prisoner of war camp.

But Joseph stayed in the camp for quite a bit of time, after a few months he was released. The biography of Joseph Ratzinger has been associated with the receipt of higher education at the Theological Institute at the University of Munich. His specialization was theology and philosophy. And already in the year the future Pope received a priestly dignity.

It was in the Cathedral of Freysing, and Dedicated Joseph to the priests Cardinal Michael Faulhaber - Archbishop of Freysing and Munich. Further, the biography of Joseph Ratzinger in terms of continuing the career of the priest is also interesting. For a year, Joseph Ratzinger defended his thesis on theology at the University of Munich on the topic "The People and House of God in Augustine Ecclesiology", in connection with which he went down in history as the best theologian in Germany.

Since the year, Joseph Ratzinger began to teach theology at the University of Bonn. And in the year it became the main expert of dogmatic theology at the University of Tubingen. In the year, Joseph Ratzinger became one of the founders of the theological magazine "Communio", which translates as "Communion". This journal about theology and culture is published to this day.

In the year, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger becomes the head of the special council for laity. The occupation of this post would lead to leaving the Munich department and the need to move to the Vatican, and Joseph Ratzinger refuses the post of head of the congregation proposed to him. But already in the year he accepts a proposal to appoint him a prefect of the Congregation in the affairs of the doctrine - the ideological department of the Vatican and, accordingly, moves to the Vatican.

At the same time, he had to abandon shepherding in Germany. And in the year, Joseph Ratzinger, also becomes Bishop Ost. In addition, from the year he occupies the post of dean of the college of cardinals. Being Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is a member of the Ecclesia dei commission, and in fact he is the main theologian in the Vatican, in connection with which his views on important issues affecting the public are the official position of the Vatican.

So, Joseph Ratzinger, an ardent opponent of abortion, in connection with which the inadmissibility of abortion is recognized in the Vatican. Benedict XVI is a highly educated person, which is also talking about his biography. He knows German, English, Italian, Spanish, as well as ancient Greek and Hebrew. The Pope is the author of many works. Here are some of them: “Truth and Railing”, “The End of Time?

The Biography of the Pope is known as the biography of a conservative person. So he harshly condemns homosexuality and marriages between the faces of the same gender, divorces, cloning. In addition, he is an ardent opponent of radical feminism. He believes that feminism undermines the foundations of family and marriage, as well as data from above by God the differences between a man and a woman.

Conservatism is also visible in his books, where he offers the conservative path of the development of the Church and the “rejection to the origins” and is extremely dissatisfied with the mixing of various cultures that occur in many Western countries, in his opinion, modern culture sharply contradicts religion and morality. The biography of the Pope is known for the fact that in Germany he was given the nickname “Panzerkardinal”, which translates as “Cardinal-Bronite”, he received it due to his intolerance to liberalism in the Catholic Church.But at the same time, Germany and other countries of the world happily accepted the news about the election of the German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.

Ratzinger, like the previous Pope, supports an existing course aimed at the peaceful coexistence of Catholicism and other religions, and also opens against armed conflicts in the world. See all portraits here.