A Good Egg, Benedict ; Learning From a Future Pope

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When my Jewish son-in-law was a teenager he was tutored for two weeks at a religious retreat in Germany by Joseph Ratzinger. He was sent there by his Jesuit teachers. The young boy's father had died and he was being raised by his mother, a descendant of a family of Sephardic Jews who had converted to Catholicism like many other Jews who left Spain during the Inquisition, to put down new roots in the New World.

The Jesuits intended for the boy to be a Catholic with a complete understanding of the meaning of the religion. This required that he learn how to think.

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A Good Egg, Benedict ; Learning From a Future Pope

As soon as he arrived he was sworn to a fortnight of virtual silence, speaking only to his tutor. He remembers Joseph Ratzinger vividly; as a mature man he regards him as the most brilliant man he...

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