Seeing His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI World Youth Day 2008 closing mass at Randwick, Australia

Pope Leaving Mass

Pope Benedict XVI gives his blessing from a window of his private apartment overlooking Saint Peter’s square.

Seven News Report on the papal mass conducted by Pope Benedict XVI at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney on July 20 2008. 400 000 attended the mass, the largest ever religious service in Australian history including 250 000 registered pilgrims. A pilgrim from ACU National (where I attend) was also filmed as part of the report.

Joseph Ratzinger was born in Marktl am Inn in Upper Bavaria in 1927 into a deeply devout family. He and his brother, Georg, became priests in 1951 but Joseph was drawn towards scholarship, and became one of Germany’s youngest professors of dogmatic theology at the University of Regensburg. In the early 60’s he became involved in Pope John XXII’s Second Vatican Council, during which his c…

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