[ELS]

What was it the Spanish cardinal said, B-16 is as brilliant as twelve professors and as devout as a child on his First Communion day . . .

That was Cardinal Meisner of Cologne, Germany who said, "I have known the Pope for 35 years (he has the intelligence of 12 professors and is as pious as a child on the day of his First Communion) and we are friends,"

[AnAmericanMother]

Thank you for looking up the reference for me! I had the gist of it anyway . . . :-D