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1st german po, been nearly 500 years, but in his home country of all places, he was a device of figure. some saw him as a hard liner. other is just as the surprise of the century with ah, in with but well, he 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. dishes. there are not pop cultural figures. graziano was different often. he became a lightning rod for all the controversies in the church after the vatican council. a hero of the conservative wing of the catholic church. 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 is 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 rud singer had a different style with

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. what exactly were these crises and why did washing 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 if writing his consciousness inevitably leads to his native bavaria. his parents, appropriately enough, were called mary and 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 and 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 sick. he wasn't and quiet type of person, which is where today at the site looks like well i especially like the fact that the pope and the various 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 weary it was his housekeeper until her death in 1991. ah, the 2 brothers were consecrated as priest 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 visit. they're watching, your family made the pilgrimage here every year. on the moving company and i come from a simple background, hence people i love most of the simple people. those with whom i get on best buy routes or in the bavarian country side for ah, writing as language was simple and beautiful, like a wind swept bavarian landscape. one example is an essay he wrote about love in writing is view. the linchpin, the catholic saying,

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, what singers love of poetic language, simple, but never trite, was already evident at school. a fellow student remembers at all sir foisy really enjoyed german poetry, ancient greek and roman poetry in his time at tom stein high school. stand along with classical and romantic german works out and he wrote poems himself at i'll say a bug, a dish, dip 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. you can legally chatter, 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 blamed which was considered a starvation camp. i know this because my father was in bad idling too, and he suffered badly there to off was it? but he didn't really want to talk about it. we've always disc, horrifying, 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 how's their dog matic ear off the nap? good. especially when i have to hear my own effusions again and again in the exam, say 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 julius dip there. he wanted the anti reform proposals to be discussed to get their way. the bishops needed the sharpest theological minds, 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 the alman saw through his mug itself, so that was the 1st time we managed to global robinson. and i believe i am right in saying that we instinctively like each other hearted before. for example, how to man a crazed my own direct alice while i admired his bavarian sancho, i will go for very that i, he was quite reserved, sort of coke. as the world watched events in rome, the theological advisors were honor, king and rattling are supported their bishops with innovative theology. instead of merely etching the past in stone, there was heated debate about the church, his place in today's world. because as it was 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 have to write that off with doug who i received

a message from the secretary to catholic unity headed by cardinal big diamonds in secret. as it were said, the so called declaration on jury. he was to be taken off the table at the council side. i rang roxanne and said johnson, we must do something. tell cardinal friends. this is a dangerous issue. it's as i'm doing 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 jury to do you know, the clearing them us getting 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 what the theologians said. plenty alone beneath that was when he started having dallas and rusty to loza. as in the day, perhaps it was these doubts the 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 joseph crossing his time in tubing into changed him. but these were anything but harmonious years in the universities. 1968 was a time of upheaval. oh, ah, god fuzzy said,

except that he was appalled by the student revolts gelani's. i'd burst into his lectures read rating parties all come up. they also burst into my lectures, ollie's and i. 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, it bothers he twist, which is the reason i believed that ain't followed the call to reagan's boy and ruth. nothing's look on gentlemen. on the one hand, i naturally reagan's will. it was in bavaria eddings for a got what was more conservative, quiet heard that was his brother. was there a lot so as the cathedral choir that now it was a different world year. we've always been in the vanguard of theology. and at that stage, he took a step track closing the top. so it's all but it was not use. the front singer 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 wrought sing i believed in b.