Catholic Priest

Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI was elected Pope at the age of 78. He is the oldest person to have been elected Pope since Pope Clement XII (1730–40). He had served longer as a cardinal than any Pope since Benedict XIII (1724–30). He is the ninth German Pope, the eighth having been the Dutch-German Pope Adrian VI (1522–23) from Utrecht.
Pope Benedict XVI is the 265the and reigning Pope, the spiritual head of the Cathlic Church, and as such, Sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected on April 19, 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on April 24, 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on May 7, 2005. Pope Benedict XVI has both GErman and Vatican citizenship. he succeeded Pope John Paul II, who died on April 2, 2005. He is also the bishop of Rome.
Benedict XVI is a well-known Catholic theologian ans a prolific author, a defender od traditional Catholic doctrine and values.
During his Papacy, Benedict XVI has emphasized what he sees as a need for Europe to return to fundamental Christian values in response to increasing de-Christianisation and secularisation in many developed countries. Because of this, he claims relativism's denial of objective truth - and more particularly, the denial of moral truths - as the central problem of the 21st century. He teaches the importance for the Catholic Church and for humanity of contemplating God's salvific love and has reaffirmed the "importance of prayer in the face of the activism and the growing secularism of many Christians engaged in charitable work."