{"id":305,"count":12,"description":"Joseph Ratzinger was born in Marktl am Inn (Germany) on April 16, 1927.\nOn June 29, 1951, he was ordained a priest in Munich. In 1953, he received his doctorate in theology.\nIn 1977 he was appointed Archbishop of M\u00fcnchen und Freising and cardinal the same year was named cardinal by Pope Paul VI.\nIn 1981 he was appointed by John Paul II as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and of the Pontifical International Theological Commission. He was president of the Commission for the preparation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church that he presented to the Holy Father. On July 3, 2015, he received the doctorate \u00abhonoris causa\u00bb.\nOn April 19, 2005, he was elected Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name of Benedict XVI.\nOn February 11, 2013 he resigned from the Pontificate of the Catholic Church becoming Pope Emeritus.","link":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/words-of-the-popes\/benedict-xvi\/","name":"Benedict XVI","slug":"benedict-xvi","taxonomy":"papa","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/papa\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/papa"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/papa"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pontifices?papa=305"},{"href":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias?papa=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}