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
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Technically, Fr. Massa is wrong in claiming that Pope Benedict is an Austrian. But in a wider sense, he is absolutely right.
Pope 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.
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