NEW POPE!
White smoke + Bell = New pope selected… details to follow!
The bell IS ringing at St. Peter’s…still waiting for who it is.
11:42am (CST) - Cardinal Ratzinger is the new Pope
From The Donegal Express:
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and International Theological Commission, Dean of the College of Cardinals
Born: 16 April 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Germany. He was ordained a priest on 29 June 1951.
Education: Doctorate in theology with a thesis entitled: “The People and House of God in St. Augustine’s doctrine of the Church”. Laurea honoris causa in jurisprudence from the Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta.
Education:
Taught dogma and fundamental theology at the higher school of philosophy and theology of Freising
Taught dogma and fundamental theology in Bonn
Taught dogma and fundamental theology inMünster
Taught dogma and fundamental theology in Tubinga
Professor of dogmatic theology and of the history of dogma at the University of Regensburg
Vice President of the University of Regensburg
Consultor at Vatican Council II, of the Archbishop of Cologne
Relator of the 5th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops
President Delegate to the 6th Synodal Assembly
Elected Vice Dean of the College of Cardinals
Dean of the College of Cardinals.
President of the Commission for the Preparation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church
Honorary member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
March 1977 – Elected Archbishop of Munich and Freising
27 June 1977 – Created and proclaimed Cardinal
Titular Churches: suburbicarian see of Velletri-Segni (5 April 1993) and suburbicarian see of Ostia (30 November 2002)
Curial Membership:
* Secretariat of State (second section)
* Oriental Churches, Divine Worship and Sacraments, Bishops, Evangelization of Peoples, Catholic Education (congregations)
* Christian Unity, Culture (councils)
* Latin America, Ecclesia Dei (commissions)
Vatican’s biography page on Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
Books by Pope Benedict XVI available from Amazon
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