REPORTAGE – Bavaria, the most Catholic Land in Germany where we salute God to say hello, has lost its pope.
Special Envoy to Marktl (Bavaria)
This weekend, fog blanketed the Inn valley. Nestled in a bend in this tributary of the Danube, the village of Marktl found itself immersed in an atmosphere conducive to contemplation. A few lighted candles diffuse a milky light on the market place, in the center of the village of 2800 souls that the bells struggle to bring out of the torpor of New Year’s Eve. The day before, Father Franz Haringer gave the homily in homage to Benedict XVI, born Joseph Ratzinger on Holy Saturday of Easter 1927 and baptized the same day in this church of Saint Oswald. In front of an assembly of about 200 faithful who had come to meditate after the announcement of his death, the young abbot, himself a theologian, spoke ” the teacher “ et ” the shepherd “. “Clearly, he was more comfortable in the first role than in the second”, comments the one who directs the birth house of the former pope emeritus. “What he loved above all was theology and…
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