When Ratzinger turned 14 in 1941, he was required by law to join the Hitler
Youth , but he was not an enthusiastic member. In 1945 he was briefly
held in an Allied POW camp. By June he was released, and he and his
brother (Georg) entered a Catholic seminary.
In 1981 Cardinal Ratzinger was appointed prefect of the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith by Pope
John Paul II, made a Cardinal Bishop of the episcopal see
of Velletri-Segni in 1993, and was elected Dean of the College of Cardinals
in 2002, becoming titular bishop of Ostia.
Ratzinger was considered to be one of John Paul II's closest friends.
He carried out the Pope's functions when Pope's functions when he fell
ill.
Cardinal Ratzinger was appointed pope Apirl 19, 2005.
Quote:
"Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church,
is often labeled today as a fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which
is letting oneself be tossed and 'swept along by every wind of teaching,'
looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards."
-- Pope Benedict XV
Sql Space
Generally has more intellgence files on him.
* Denotes Deceased
Dr. Mahmoud Zahar
, Mahmoud Abbas , Moqtada
al-Sadr , The Great Imam Mahdi
, Muammar al-Qaddafi ,* Saddam
Hussein , * Ahmed
Shah Massoud , Abdullah Ahmed
Abdullah , Osama Bin Laden ,
* Yehiya
Ayyash ,* Abu Musab al Zarqawi , Ayman Al-Zawahiri ,
* Abu Abbas , Hassan
Nasrallah , Abdul Qadeer Khan
, Muhammad Atef , Ariel
Sharon , Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
, Imad Fayez Mugniyah ,
*Yasser Arafat , Mohammad
Khatami , Bashir Assad , Azzam
the American , *Sheikh
Ahmed Yassin , * Abdel
Aziz Rantisi , George W. Bush
, Bill Clinton , Michael
Chertoff , Hillary Rodham
Clinton , John D. Negroponte
, Howard Dean , Dick
Cheney , Bill Gates , John
Kerry , Bill Frist , Donald
Rumsfeld , John Edwards , Louis
Farrakhan , Matt Drudge , Ralph
Nader , Alan Greenspan ,
Condoleezza Rice , Arnold
Schwarzenegger , Gijs de Vries
, Jacques Chirac , Vladimir
Putin , Rosalinda Celentano
, Gerhard Schroder , Prince
Charles , Prince William ,
* Pope John
Paul II , Tony Blair , Maitreya
, Kim Jong Il , Paul
Wolfowitz , Hu Jintao , George
H.W. Bush , Michael Schiavo
, George J. Felos , Pope
Benedict XVI , Viktor Yushchenko , Sheikh Abu Hafs al-Qarni , Karl Rove , David Gergen , Abu Hamza al-Masri , Alex Jones , Cindy Sheehan , Michael Moore , John Roberts , Michael Brown , Harriet Miers , Scott McClellan , Ben Bernanke , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Samuel Alito , Lewis Libby , Stephen Harper , Michael Hayden , Ehud Olmert , Robert Gates , John McCain , Barack Obama
Return to Mabus Files