Pope's Brother Says Liturgical Reforms Were a "Slight Adjustment"

The brother of the Pope is giving prize details from the chronicle of his family from his interview book. In 1953 came the sudden report of the death of their father. 

(kreuz.net, Regensburg) Today the interview book "Mein Bruder, the Pope" of author Micheal Hesemann has arrived. Hesemann began the work in the spring during five sittings with the brother of the Pope, Prelate Georg Ratzinger (87).

In the book the Prelate denied the claim by author Gunther Grass, the SS-Volunteer, met with the Pope in their younger years. Grass is supposed to have invented this.  

Where are these students today?

Prelate Ratzinger described his little brother's love for teddy bears as a child. Both boys fought from time to time, but always quickly reconciled. About the time of his brother as a professor in Tubingen, Prelate Ratzinger said that there were "no turning points".

"It was during this time that his researches were clarified somewhat and systematized." The controversial book "Introduction to Christendom" is supposed to have brought many students from "unreal fantasies" to the right way.  

False Death Notice

In 1953, George and Joseph Ratzinger received a telegram that erroneously reported the death of their father. Both went immediately on a train to Trauenstein. When they arrived, they found their father alive, sitting in front of the house and shining his shoes.

Rigid Liturgy is the Real Problem

As far as liturgy Prelate Ratzinger says that the Pope desires a worthy and correct celebration. That is "in the present day a real problem".

There are many priests who believe they must add things and even change it here and there. He described the the post-Conciliar Liturgical Reform as "a slight adjustment".

The Prelate attacked the mass of his youth as "a Liturgy that was actually a bit rigid". It had supposedly become "much more inviting".

The Prelate hopes that his brother can be spared all of those health problems and still stand before the heavenly tester, "where we all must take our ex-Amens, to the final examination."

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