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ps2man1
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A New Pope

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I went online today, April 19, and went directly to Whyville. Well, I was going to go directly to Whyville, but something else caught my attention. It was in my online newsletter, which had a headline that declared "Joseph Ratzinger Greets His Flock". I knew that he had been a cardinal, so I figured out pretty quickly that he is the new Pope!

Joseph Ratzinger is German. That is kind of funny, because before Pope John Paul II there was 500 years of Italian popes. Pope John Paul II was Polish, and now there's a German Pope! So much for keeping to tradition....

Joseph Ratzinger was born in Marktl, Germany, on April 16, 1927. When elected as Pope, the 78-year-old changed his name to Benedict XVI. He is the 256th Pope of the Catholic Church.

While a teenager, Ratzinger was enrolled in a Nazi youth group. He was let out soon because of his studies for priesthood. He served since Pope John Paul II and is a great choice!

I got my information from the German magazine, Der Spiegel: http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,352310,00.html.

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Editor's Note: Thanks for the international flavor to your source, ps2man1! It's interesting to see how the German news media is treating the new pope. Perhaps next time we'll get more than one source to our articles, to see even more variety! :-)

 

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