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Cardinal Schönborn on his friend Benedict: I put him next to the great Doctors

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I.Media - published on 01/02/23
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The years of collaboration first with Professor Ratzinger, then with Cardinal Ratzinger, and then with Pope Benedict, were for me a true gift of spiritual fatherhood.

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Benedict XVI is "of that class of great teachers who endure," said Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn in a statement to the press, hours after the death of the Pope Emeritus on December 31, 2022. The 77-year-old Archbishop of Vienna recalled his friendship with the German pope, with whom he worked from 1987 to 1992 on the preparation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, published under the pontificate of John Paul II.  

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