In death as in life, people in Bavaria and beyond remain ambivalent towards Joseph Ratzinger
In death as in life, people here in Bavaria and around Germany remain ambivalent towards Joseph Ratzinger.
Aged 41, a second Ratzinger emerged in Regensburg, 130km to the north where he found his theological home after leaving behind the 1968 student revolution university upheavals further west in his previous academic home of Tübingen. While Küng insisted Ratzinger fled Tübingen, traumatised, the later pope told his biographer Peter Seewald he made a planned retreat from “the destruction of theology ... taking place through its politicisation in the service of Marxist messianism”.
Stories abound in German church circles about Ratzinger’s preferred modus operandi: in person a calm, amenable, conflict-averse figure who, behind the scenes, could act quickly and decisively against those perceived as problematic or a threat. The effects of secrecy and institutional loyalty were evident in Joseph Ratzinger’s final act in Germany: a January 2022 report on sexual abuse in the Bavarian archdiocese of Munich and Freising, which he headed for five years until 1982.
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