Well, thank you everybody for joining us. I'm Father Chris Ailar. We appreciate all of you from around the world gathering together as we follow our lady in her, I'm not even going to say request, her demand from heaven that we do the first Saturdays. And we've all joined together. Again, I have been saying, I believe this is one of the largest

gatherings of people in the world right now doing first Saturdays together. And that is here with us

at the National Shrine. And praise be to God. So we're going to do a talk. Actually, I normally

always do a Merian Apparition talk on the first Saturday. I've been doing that now

for a long time, but we're going to make an exception. Today we're going to talk about Benedict

the 16th and what was the confusion and how was his papacy. And then we'll follow, we'll shut down,

and then start back up with the devotion of first Saturday. So let us pray

in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, we ask you

send the Holy Spirit down upon us. We ask for the repose of the soul of Pope Benedict the 16th and that

we may be a faithful flock in the church entrusted to our from our lord and we ask

all this through the intercession of our blessed mother mary and through christ our lord amen in the

name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen okay so today we're going to talk a

little bit about pope Francis. You saw,

I'm sorry, Pope Benedict. We saw on the slide. What did he really teach? Controversy, there was some

of that. We're going to talk a little bit about that. Okay, let's start right in. Let's look at our first

slide. This is where he was born this is his actual house

where pope benedict was born um as joseph ratzinger okay he was born on holy saturday

but you don't know that as joseph aloysius ratzinger on apr the 16th, 1927 in Bavaria, in Germany. And that's a picture of the house.

Let's look at our next slide. Those are his family members. He was the youngest of three children.

His father, Joseph Sr., was a police officer and his brother

Greg or George Rad Singer is a retired priest who has also passed away and they were

ordained on the same day so really kind fascinating. So now on the other one in that

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