Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 81. Chapters: Regensburg lecture, Theology of Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Benedict XVI and Islam, Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom, Summorum Pontificum, Personal ordinariate, List of journeys of Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Benedict XVI and Judaism, Papal conclave, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI and Ecumenism, Joseph Ratzinger as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI, Early life of Pope Benedict XVI, Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization, Peter Hullermann, Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States, Vincent Twomey, Georg Ratzinger, Gerhard Maria Wagner, Ten Commandments for Drivers, Ceremonial of Benedict XVI, Georg Ganswein, Susanna Maiolo, Ratzinger Foundation, Ratzinger Report, Clarification concerning status of Catholics becoming Freemasons, List of German universities affiliated with Pope Benedict XVI. Excerpt: Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Italian: German: born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the head of the Roman Catholic Church. He was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. A native of Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI has both German and Vatican citizenship. After a long career as an academic, serving as a professor of theology at various German universities-most recently at the University of Regensburg-he was appointed Archbishop of Munich and Freising and cardinal by Pope Paul VI in 1977. In 1981, he settled in Rome when he became Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, one of the most important offices of the Roman Curia. From 2002 until his election as ...