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By Deborah Castellano Lubov
, his residence during the last ten years, during Christmas time, it was decorated like you decorate your home in Bavaria for Christmas. It is no coincidence that his health only declined after Christmas, that he wanted to celebrate it a very last time – the 95th time! – and did not want anybody to worry and be distracted from the Joy of Christmas.
He was so far away from being a strict, resolute prelate but always, even with his biggest opponents, open, kind and friendly … Benedict did not only speak about God’s love and mercy, he practised it. But love and understanding did not mean compromise for him. He never betrayed the truth for just a foul compromise.His father was a country policeman, his mother a cook.
Q: Pope St. John Paul II was loved and left a tremendous legacy. Yet, Ratzinger was elected already by the afternoon of the second day of the Conclave, in the fourth vote. Why was the College of Cardinals so convinced he was the person to lead the Church? How did he pick up and expand JPII's legacy?
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