Yes. I would not have commented on this article had it not for being posted in News/Activism...it belongs in religion because there is no opportunity for objective inspection because theological objections about the meaning of this religion or that religion, the value of the good they do or do not do, etc. I normally try to stay of of those trysts in the Religion Forum because of the MormonISM haters and Catholic Haters.
In case you didn’t notice, I didn’t comment on the article, I ammented on your comment.
These articles, whether they are posted here or elsewhere, includidng the Vatican newspaper, are more often skewed, spun blabber that have nothing to do with what the pope actually said printed for the benefit of those who think they know more than the pop does about everything including things he’s been educated on.
Here is the Vatican account of his education:
His youthful years . . . prepared him for the harsh experience of those years during which the Nazi regime pursued a hostile attitude towards the Catholic Church. The young Joseph saw how some Nazis beat the Parish Priest before the celebration of Mass.
His family . . . always gave a clear witness of goodness and hope, rooted in a convinced attachment to the Church.
From 1946 to 1951 he studied philosophy and theology in the Higher School of Philosophy and Theology of Freising and at the University of Munich.
He received his priestly ordination on 29 June 1951.
A year later he began teaching at the Higher School of Freising.
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”.
Four years later, under the direction of the renowned professor of fundamental theology Gottlieb Söhngen, he qualified for University teaching with a dissertation on: “The Theology of History in St Bonaventure”.
After lecturing on dogmatic and fundamental theology at the Higher School of Philosophy and Theology in Freising, he went on to teach at Bonn, from 1959 to1963; at Münster from 1963 to 1966 and at Tübingen from 1966 to 1969. During this last year he held the Chair of dogmatics and history of dogma at the University of Regensburg, where he was also Vice-President of the University.
From 1962 to 1965 he made a notable contribution to Vatican II as an “expert”; being present at the Council as theological advisor of Cardinal Joseph Frings, Archbishop of Cologne.
His intense scientific activity led him to important positions at the service of the German Bishops’ Conference and the International Theological Commission.
In 1972 together with Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac and other important theologians, he initiated the theological journal “Communio”.