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Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, Retired Pope's Brother Sister Theresa Girolamo 30 CATHOLIC NEW YORK July 16, 2020 Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, Retired Pope’s Brother Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, a musician and Re- When the war ended, he and his brother en- tired Pope Benedict XVI’s elder brother, died rolled in 1946 in the seminary of the Munich and July 1. He was 96. Freising Archdiocese and were ordained priests According to Vatican News, Msgr. Ratzinger five years later. He directed the Regensburg boys’ died in Regensburg, Germany, where he had choir from 1964 to 1994, when he retired. been hospitalized. Providing musical accompaniment for the Pope Benedict followed the July 8 Funeral Funeral Mass were 16 former members of the Mass of his brother via livestreaming, reported “Domspatzen,” the name of the Regensburg the German Catholic news agency KNA. Bishop Cathedral’s world-famous boys’ choir that Msgr. Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg said Pope Ratzinger directed. Msgr. Georg Ratzinger Benedict, 93, was connected to the Mass offered Bishop Voderholzer praised Msgr. Ratzinger’s for his brother in the Regensburg Cathedral. musical contribution and said it made clear how photo credit t/k During the Mass, the Regensburg bishop recalled Church music was not an “external ingredient” the surprise June 18-22 visit Pope Benedict paid in a Christian church service. Music itself was The retired pope had written to his deceased to the sickbed of his dying brother. “a medium of evangelization,” he said. brother a letter, which was read at the ceremony Born at Pleiskirchen, Germany, Msgr. Ratzing- The Vatican newspaper and KNA reported by Archbishop Ganswein. er already was a proficient organist and pianist that alongside Bishop Voderholzer at the altar Recalling his June visit to Regensburg, the re- by the time he entered the minor seminary in were Pope Benedict’s private secretary, Arch- tired pope said he said “farewell” to his brother, Traunstein in 1935. Forced to leave the seminary bishop Georg Ganswein, and the pope’s ambas- knowing that “it would be a farewell from this when war broke out, he was wounded while sador to Germany, Archbishop Nikola Eterovic. world forever. But we also knew that God, who serving in Italy with Germany’s armed forces in Among other participants were the former is good, who gave us this gift of being together 1944 and later was held as a prisoner of war by Regensburg bishop, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, in this world, also reigns in the other world, and U.S. forces. and Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx. there He will let us be reunited again.” —CNS Sister Theresa Girolamo, Directed St. Rita’s Center vows in 1965. Sister Theresa Angelo Girolamo, O.P., a Sister Theresa Angelo taught at Aquinas High She received a bachelor’s degree in education teacher at Aquinas High School in the Bronx School, 1983-1994. She also taught at St. Rose of from St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, and for 11 years, died June 27 at Dominican Convent Lima, Manhattan, 1978-1983; St. Catherine of Si- a master’s in earth science from the University Siena Hall in Sparkill. She was 80. ena, Manhattan, 1961-1966; and St. Agnes Home of Oklahoma, Norman. She served at St. Rita’s Center for Immigrant and School, Sparkill, 1958-1961. Her sister, Amy Cammerato, and her brothers, and Refugees Services, the Bronx, as director, Sister Theresa Angelo also served in upstate Ralph and Vincent, survive her. 2015-2019; assistant director, 2005-2015; and co- Norwich and Nassau County A Funeral Mass was celebrated July 1 in Our ordinator of the English as a Second Language Born in the Bronx, she entered the Dominican Lady of the Rosary Chapel, Sparkill. Burial was state program, 1994-2005. Sisters of Sparkill in 1958 and professed final in St. Agnes Cemetery, Sparkill. 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