He's Austrian [sic, recte German], and likes looking back to the past. He likes the smells and bells. I do, too. I suspect there's more to it than that, but I don't know.
Link (here) to the full interview of Fr. Mark Massa, S.J. in the George Soros funded Huffington Post
Technically, Fr. Massa is wrong in claiming that Pope Benedict is an Austrian. But in a wider sense, he is absolutely right.
ReplyDeletePope Benedict comes from a town something like 20 - at most 30 miles - from the Austrian border. His father was a customs officer. He's a Bavarian; Bavarians are to Germany a bit like Texans are or were to the US, a very large state with a very distinctive culture, which just happens to be much closer to Austrian culture than mainstream Germany culture.