Same here - and yes, very good questions and it seemed like very good answers from what I could understand - I also have nine teenaged girls in my house tonight, so I was kind of distracted!
I would be too! (Sorry, couldn't resist!)
Ratzinger was very hard to follow, and I gave up after about 15 minutes.
I did, however, catch the Fulton Sheen re-run afterwards, and he gave a stirring re-creation of Abraham Lincoln as "the Savior of America."
Sheen had quite the awareness of the dramatic, and knew how to blend words and presence.
I'm going to watch this more often.