Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger aka Benedict XVI 1927-2022

[Bombast the Blue]

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c ... esman.html

Personally very much more of science than faith, and feeling that faith should never be subject to hierarchies but rather kept in a personal level, generally speaking the biographies of religious figures are of little interest to me.
Of Pope Benedict XVI I note in first place the rational decision - in a context that has very little to do with rationality - of evaluating his capability to keep in office and resigning his position when he found he no longer had it.
In second place the tact displayed in having gotten completely out of the way of his successor to the point that it was Francis that kept reminding of his existence.

Well, TV says the man fancied Mozart's music so here's the Requiem conducted by Celibidache in front of the Münchner Philarmoniker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Moc4d4hR_uo

[hoza]

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c ... esman.html

Personally very much more of science than faith, and feeling that faith should never be subject to hierarchies but rather kept in a personal level, generally speaking the biographies of religious figures are of little interest to me.
Of Pope Benedict XVI I note in first place the rational decision - in a context that has very little to do with rationality - of evaluating his capability to keep in office and resigning his position when he found he no longer had it.
In second place the tact displayed in having gotten completely out of the way of his successor to the point that it was Francis that kept reminding of his existence.

Well, TV says the man fancied Mozart's music so here's the Requiem conducted by Celibidache in front of the Münchner Philarmoniker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Moc4d4hR_uo

I agree a very rare attribute for leaders