He also earned a real doctorate in theology in 1953. The Vatican.va website says: In 1953 he obtained his doctorate in theology with a thesis entitled "People and House of God in St Augustine’s Doctrine of the Church".
God has given us a steward who knows Augustine and therefore is able to protect God's people against Calvinism and all those who would pervert Augustine's writings.
I think the world, and not only the Catholic world, has been greatly blessed with Pope Benedict, one of the greatest popes of modern times, a clear thinker and a true reformer.