Abstract
While teaching seminarians at Freising’s Domberg (cathedral hill), Ratzinger already displayed a linguistic mastery that fascinated and captivated people. To the students his approach was both brilliant and altogether novel. His lectures were methodical in structure and “meditative-reflective” in style. Shortly after his arrival in the parish of Heiligen Blut after ordination, his pastor, Father Blumschein, asked him to preach at the 7: 30 a.m. Sunday mass, and Ratzinger even outperformed, as regards the quality of his homilies, the famous Jesuit homilists Fathers Friedrich Wulf and Franz Hillig.1
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Notes
Hans Meier, “Bayer und Weltbürger,” in Eine Theologie in der Nachfolge Petri: Papst Benedikt XVI, special issue of Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift 5 (2005): 498–504, at 500.
Joseph Ratzinger, Milestones: Memoirs 1921–1911 (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1998), 29.
Cf. Marion Stojetz, “Aus tiefem Abend glänzt ein heller Stern,” Welt- und Natursicht in der Lyrik Hans Carossas (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2005).
E. Kamphausen-Carossa, ed., Hans Carossa, Leben und Werk in Bildern und Texten (Frankfurt am Main: Insel, 1993).
Alexander Kissler, Der Deutsche Papst, Benedikt XVI und seine schwierige Heimat (Freiburg i. Br.: Herder, 2005), 28.
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de Gaál, E. (2010). His Language and Style. In: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230114760_6
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