Many people don’t know that Pope Francis planned to write his thesis
on Romano Guardini, the distinguished theologian and liturgist who had a
profound influence on Joseph Ratzinger. Ratzinger even named one of
his most important books with the same title as that of one of Guardini’s, namely, The Spirit of the Liturgy. (We need to read and apply what Ratzinger wrote now more than ever, by the way.) [Magister
corrected his own entry which now reads: "It was precisely on Guardini
that the Jesuit Bergoglio was planning to write the thesis for his
doctorate in theology, during an academic sojourn in Germany in 1986 at
the philosophical-theological faculty of Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt: a
plan that was later abandoned."] Pope Benedict, the day he stepped-down, quoted Guardini twice in his final speech as Pope.
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