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His younger brother is Joseph Ratzinger (1927–2022), who later reigned as Pope Benedict XVI from 2005 to 2013, and they had an elder sister, Maria (1921–1991). Early in his life he showed musical talent, playing the church organ already at the age of 11.
Jul 1, 2020 · Georg Ratzinger, the older brother of the Pope emeritus, died Wednesday morning, aged 96. He had been hospitalized in Regensburg, the city where he lived the greater part of his long life.
Jul 1, 2020 · Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, the older brother of Benedict XVI, died on July 1 at the age of 96. In an extraordinary gesture of brotherly love, the frail 93-year-old pope emeritus left the Vatican...
Jul 1, 2020 · Benedict XVI's older brother Georg Ratzinger died Wednesday, just a little more than one week after the pope emeritus' visit. Msgr. Georg Ratzinger died in Bavaria at the age of 96 on July 1.
Jul 8, 2020 · Pope emeritus Benedict XVI said three characteristics came up in his recollections about his brother. The first – wrote the Pope emeritus – is that his brother “received and understood his vocation to the priesthood as a musical vocation at the same time.”
Jul 8, 2020 · Benedict XVI watched his brother's funeral via livestream on Wednesday as his secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein read the pope emeritus' message of remembrance at the Mass in Germany.
Jul 1, 2020 · The Rev. Georg Ratzinger, a Roman Catholic priest and celebrated choirmaster who was the older brother of Benedict XVI, the pope emeritus, died on Wednesday in Regensburg, Germany, where he...
