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think you're the 1st german pope in nearly 500 years but in his home country of all places, he was a divisive figure. some saw him as a hard liner. other is just as the surprise of the century when when when nothing but well preferred to stay out of the limelight. he found himself at the epicenter

of ecclesiastical disputes before before becoming pope most figures in the curio deliberately move in the shadows. they're not on t v i position. there are not pop cultural figures. rot singer was different often papa. he became a lightning rod for all the controversies in the church after the vatican council by hero of the conservative wing of the catholic church. but man, in a way crossing, i was like the darth vader of the catholic left. he was depressing. her was seen by some as being on the dark side of catholic power but the world catholic youth saw it differently. his 1st big event as pope was world youth day in cologne, where his predecessor had enjoyed a status similar to that of a rock star among young catholics. the scholar use of wrought singer had

a different style. ah, one man who knew use of white singer for many years was his biographer, the american vatican correspondent, john ellen. joseph francis does not last staff to the spotlight. he is not terribly comfortable there. if he does not enjoy being on the public stage, and on the other hand because he was deeply convinced that the catholic church was facing unusually difficult challenges. and he was convinced that he had what it took to cope with these crises. but what exactly were these crises and why did blessing or believe he was the one chosen to resolve them?

ah remarks once wrote that it was man's social existence to determine his consciousness. the search for what formed us watching his consciousness inevitably leads to his native bavaria. his parents, appropriately enough, were called marian joseph. ah, young use, it was born in the town of marco, i'm in on april 16th 1927. ah, at an early age you have had his heart in mind set on becoming a priest. his father, a police officer supported him later watching or would say that he learned

a lot from his father's deep, sober face. ah, he said, his mother, on the other hand, was more politic and warm hearted today, the house of his birth is a tourist attraction and the pride of the locals. i should not for most people, for market till it's an honor. he's one of us is that he wasn't a quiet type of person, which is where today at the site looks like well i especially like the fact that the probing bavaria is it gives me something to hold onto them, hold the years if remained close to his siblings, his brother, georg, and his sister maria. ah, maria was his housekeeper until her death in 1991. ah. the 2 brothers were consecrated as priests together in

1951. they would meet up at least once a year. all joseph's life o 2 thing is the oldest and best known place of pilgrimage for germany's catholics and bavarian, loyal to the monarchy of the house of it. their watching your family made the pilgrimage here every year of the moving company. and i come from a simple background, hence the people i love, most of the simple people, those with whom i get on best. my roots are in the bavarian countryside. ah, biting his language was simple and beautiful like a wind swept bavarian landscape. one example is an essay he wrote about love in

writing a view, the linchpin this a catholic thing, ah love is the light she wrote. ultimately the only thing capable of illuminating the dark world over and over. and that gives us the courage to live and act. i want to invite you to make love a reality and to let the light of god into the world. ah, right singers, love of poetic language, simple, but never trite, was already evident at school. a fellow student remembers at all sir floyd, he really enjoyed german poetry, ancient greek and roman poetry in his time at tom stein high school stomach, him along with classical and romantic german work sat and he wrote poems himself at

al serra bug additional. ah, elizabeth guzman lived in tokyo for years, but we met the professor in munich, where she studied theology alongside wrought singer in the early 19 fifties. ah, it was the beginning of an intense and close friendship that endured for decades. can legally chateau rosanna, you learned that since occasionally he would talk about his usa. he was an air defense volunteer than he did war time work service. ah. then he was in the army for a short while dear. and then he was imprisoned for a time and he was sent to the camp at bat i, blank, which was considered a starvation camp. i know this because my father was in bad idling too. and he suffered badly there to off. what's it? but he didn't really want to talk about it. we've always disc off i gave rotting or

supported grossman's application for a professorship and regensburg with all his heart. but there was too much resistance to a woman getting the job. she went to tokyo instead, he would write to her about his frustrations as a teacher of dogmatic theology man is ansuka, abbot is set and my work is closely determined by preparations for the curriculum. whereby i take great pleasure from fundamental theology. while the over filled department store of dogmatic theology is more inclined to get on my nerves and house their dogmatic air off the nap. good. especially when i have to hear my own effusions again and again in the exam. se, in envelope, often distorted in the most amazing way would at least and fet sat allan emma for 9 . and her one was me even

critics of relaxing or use glowing terms to describe the early career of the highly gifted theologian. as a young professor, he took part in the 2nd vatican council in rome from 1962 to 1900. 65. the council was supposed to represent a turning point in the history of the church. major reform. john, the 23rd, one of the more charismatic pope called it a join, a mental taking the church into the present. he called together all the bishops of the world to achieve this in the face of opposition from the most powerful doctrinal guardian, cardinal auto viani, who wanted the decisive ecclesiastical texts to be adopted without debate. the hour of the german bishops had come led by the munich cardinal jojo. he wanted the anti reform proposals to be discussed to get their way. the bishops needed the sharpest theological mines, such as car runner, who even then enjoyed world renown as

a village and years of rotting, are and hands. coon were 2 young theologians considered to have a bright future to his market. that was the 1st time we have to spend, i believe i'm right in saying that we instinctively like each other hard disk for for example, crazed my own direct on this while i admire it is bavarian for very and he was quite reserved to recall as the world watched events in rome, the theological advisers, ron, or coon and writing are supported their bishops with innovative theology. instead of merely itching the past in stone, there was heated debate about the churches place in today's world because of the dollars in be in the ups, in which i believe we were both on the same page despite our different positions and context. context. once seen,

i remember quite vividly in aussie la coughed. it was on a friday afternoon. i believe i'll have that off with doug who i received a message from the secretary to her catholic unity headed by cardinal b. diamond's will in secret, as it were very clear that the so called declaration on jury. he was to be taken off the table at the council side. i rang right soon on, said johnson. we must do something. tell cardinal friends. this is a dangerous issue with the natives as um, do you like a couple of cardinals? we'll have to get in touch with the pope. otherwise the whole thing will be over. and indeed we were successful. for my own part, i made sure the press was alarmed, and that was how we saved the declaration on jewelry to do you know that clear gum us? get it to pull. the theological advisors gained an influence in the background. it was they who were pulling the strings for the bishops, and the cardinals. but even back then, as professor grossman remembers rattling her harvard some doubts. this as this is emma, the 1st time he came back from a session of the council. he went along with their talk to us,

but then he thought about it and came to the conclusion that it was not right. that the bishops who were over the theologians in theory at least, should be taught by the theologians and then announced with the theologians said, han into logan been the that was when he started having dallas and rusty to loza. as in the day, perhaps it was these doubts that turned a young theologian, a rebel, almost the white hope of progressive forces in the vatican into a much feared conservative. in 1966 hands couldn't appointed his bavarian colleague to tubing in university. the theory survives to this day that it was yoseph writing as time in tubing into changed him. but these were anything but harmonious years in the universities. 1968 was a time of upheaval. oh,

ah, with buzzing, except that he was appalled by the student revolts gelani's. i'd burst into his lectures read rating parties, of course, they also burst into my lectures. all is in the end, he was a more sensitive tie to teach up this week. i would defend the microphone with my and while he would just stand there shot by the us, he tush, which is the reason i believe that hank followed the call to reagan's gordon roof. nothing's work on going on with her on the one hand and naturally regensburg was in bavaria settings for a got what was more conservative, quieter. that was his brother was there last year. so as the cathedral choir that it was a different world year. we've always been in the vanguard of theology, and at that stage he took a step back, closing the topic to repeat it so but it was not use of rotting, or who was changing. it was the times ah, and the renewal of the church he had so yearned for suddenly looked out of control

. the the moderate reform that rot singer believed and became a revolution in his eyes. and after the vatican council wrote enough to him cuz he had filled heavily till he felt that with the students protested the marxist rebellions and so on. come, what things had spiraled out of control. the end of the change was too fast and it went too far and then taking catalyst and it became necessary to reassert traditional markers of catholic identity, identity. oh, he got his chance in 1977. pope paul, the 6 who had known and valued us pricing or since the days of the vatican council made him archbishop of munich, enterprising, switched from studying to preaching. now he was part of the hierarchy. in his no your speech, he explained what the office of bishop meant to him.