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...cupboard is full again. Unlike when the virtually unknown Papa Wojtyla was elected 26 years ago, the 78-year-old German has been a major public presence here for more than two decades. And the Romans, and Italians more generally, will be the first to gauge how "Cardinale Ratzinger" will evolve into "Il Papa." His predecessor, who was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years, won over many hearts the very first evening he spoke to the Piazza: "I will speak in your, OUR language," he toned to the faithful below. "And when I make a mistake, you will...
...Monday, April 18, 11 pm, Vatican City Ratzinger Under the Weather Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger has a cold. The sniffles and hoarse voice didn't stop the 78-year-old German from giving a forceful homily this morning in the final public mass before the 115 elector cardinals were locked off from the world. But when I heard him cough, when I saw him reach for a handkerchief from the sleeve of his scarlet vestments, I remembered a conversation I had last week with a Vatican insider convinced that Ratzinger was perfectly positioned to succeed John Paul II. "Anything can happen...
...JOSEPH RATZINGER, 78, German head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Respected by all cardinals, but feared by some as too divisive. Considered the best adapted to finish off John Paul II?s doctrinal legacy...
...conclave period weak and particularly unprepared. And since the surprise momentum of the candidacy of Ratzinger - considered the symbol of the doctrinaire tendencies of the last pontificate - former Milan Archbishop Carlo Maria Martini, 78, has led an effort to scramble for a compromise candidate to oppose the German. Ratzinger as Pope, one source told Zizola, would amount to a "symbolic and institutional registering of the defeat? of the reforms of the 1960s Second Vatican Council. Tettamanzi, who succeeded Martini in Milan, may be the man to stave off a Ratzinger rout in the early balloting. He is seen...
...more important issues that keep coming up in the houses—issues of wellness, issues of race, and so forth—might be able to be dealt with by people who already bring with them some sort of qualification,” said Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, a member of the Council...