The Life and Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI

On this episode of The Deacon and the Doc we reflected on the incredible life of Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Ratzinger in 1927. We began with sharing when and where we got the news of his death, then how we first learned of him as an intellectual figure. We looked back at his role as as a peritus at the Second Vatican Council and then his work, alongside Pope John Paul II, in securing the legacy of the council and what he eventually termed the "reform of the reform." Dcn. Mike emphasized Pope Benedict's heroic efforts to maintain the unity of truth and love in the face of the modern world's efforts to separate and distort them. We concluded by marveling at the sheer range and brilliance of the late Holy Father's intellectual deposit, including his friend Cardinal Christoph Schönburn's assessment, who puts "the works of Pope Benedict next to the works of Saint Augustine."