BENEDICT XVI RECEIVES THE WINNERS OF THE RATZINGER PRIZE 2017

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(17/11/17) The Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI welcomed this morning, at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery of the Vatican City, the three men who will receive Ratzinger Prize from Pope Francis: the German Lutheran theologian Theodor Dieter, the German Catholic priest and theologian Karl-Heinz Menke, the Estonian musical composer Arvo Pärt. The President of the Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation, father Federico Lombardi, was with them. They could have a long talk with the Pope Emeritus and the meeting was intense and peaceful.

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