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As every good historian does, Brennan Pursell, in his Benedict of Bavaria: An Intimate Portrait of the Pope and His Homeland (Circle Press, 2008), looks to the past in the hopes of glimpsing into the future.

"I haven't had illuminations in the classical sense, if by that you mean something half-mystical," then Cardinal Ratzinger told secular journalist Peter Seewald in the 1977 book-length interview Salt of the Earth. "I am a perfectly ordinary Christian. But in a broader sense faith certainly gives one might.