I loved Ratzinger long before he was elevated to Pope!
Yes, yes, and yes!
Benedict is a theological Einstein. You reads his books, essays, and homilies, and in comparison all the rest is like manure especially the pedestrian writings that cascade from the blogs of non-Catholic pastors that peddle soapy nonsense. So-called pastors like Joel Osteen and company should be tried before heresy tribunals and sentenced to prison for propagating prosperity gospels. Without belief in the Holy Eucharist every other form of belief is vacuous, totally.