The church has said that Cardinal Ratzinger (as he then was) did not know that the priest returned to work.

天主教会表示，红衣主教拉青格（现在的教皇）对那个主教恢复神职的事情并不知情。

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Four years before he became Pope however, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger spent nearly a month in hospital following a brain haemorrhage, according to the German daily Bild.

但据德国日报《图片报》报道，在即位教皇的四年前，约瑟夫·拉辛格(本尼迪克特原名)主教曾因脑出血住院近一个月。

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Ratzinger served as Archbishop of Munich from 1977 to 1982.

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Still,questions remain from his time as head of the Vatican's main office of doctrine and why Cardinal Ratzinger chose not to discipline or defrock the American priest, the Reverend Lawrence Murphy.

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"I cannot see that there is a direct responsibility by Ratzinger for the reassignment of Huellermann to pastoral work - maybe an indirect one because that's where the buck stops, so to speak."

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At 78, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was one of the oldest new popes in history when elected.

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There is also a guest room available for when his older brother, Georg Ratzinger, visits.

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Scola met Ratzinger when Scola wrote for Communion magazine, a publication cofounded by Ratzinger.

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