Cathedral mass for new pope, Bishop reacts, vox pops
1.
Various of streets,
Munich city centre
2.
Cathedral
3.
News stand, pan from one paper to next: "A Bavarian is
Pope" and "
We are Pope"
4.
Headline saying "
A man from Munich is new Pope"
5. Exterior Cathedral Frauendom
6. Interior of Cathedral Frauendom
7.
Bishop of Frauendom Engelbert Siedler
8.
People inside the church
9. SOUNDBITE: (
English) Engelbert Siedler, Bishop of Frauendom:
"I personally, I know him very, very good. We have sometimes holy days and we went to the mountains, to the
Alps, and so on and so I know him well and it was a very great surprise for us all."
10. Interior shot of church people praying and mass
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Engelbert Siedler, Bishop of Frauendom:
"This is one of the best things he has. He's a very good philosophical, very good theologically and he may strengthen and he may stress the theology and he will be a partner of the scientific people and so I hope he will do all the things inside the church (that)
John Paul has done outside the church."
12. Various of interior
13. SOUNDBITE: (
German)
Vox Pop:
"I think he (Ratzinger) will continue the work of
Papa (
Karol) Wojytla (
Pope John Paul II) . I think the church doesn't need reform. The church has to be more strict otherwise the
Catholic community won't have a future, so that
Church has to be more strict."
14. SOUNDBITE: (German) Vox Pop
"I think Ratzinger will do well. I think he will be strict but I think he will also have a lot to offer the people. And he will be able to open the Church a bit and he will pave the way for his successor so that his successor will have an easier time."
15. Exterior of cathedral towers
STORYLINE:
As
Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his first public
Mass as the 265th leader of the
Roman Catholic Church,
Germans celebrated his appointment.
In Munich, residents said they were delighted and surprised by the appointment of the Vatican's hard-line enforcer of church orthodoxy under
John Paul II for almost 25 years.
Former
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger emerged Tuesday as the oldest pontiff in 275 years and the first
Germanic pope in almost a millennium.
A conservative on issues such as homosexuality, the ordination of women, and lifting the celibacy requirement for priests, Benedict has led the Vatican's
Congregation for the
Doctrine of the
Faith - a position he used to discipline church dissidents and uphold church policy against attempts at reform by liberals and activist priests.
Bishop of Frauendom Engelbert Siedler, who has vacationed with the pope on holy days, said
Pope Benedict's strength is his philosophical and theological insights.
Benedict inherits a range of pressing issues.
These include priest sex-abuse scandals that have cost the church (m) millions in settlements in the
United States and elsewhere, chronic shortages of priests and nuns in the
West, and calls for easing the ban on condoms to help fight the spread of
AIDS.
He has to follow in the footsteps of John Paul II, the global pontiff who made 104 international trips in his more than 26 years as pope and set new standards in reaching out to other religions.
Churchgoers were delighted, with some applauding the choice of a strong and conservative pope.
Benedict's faith is rooted in
Bavaria, the
Alpine region with
Germany's strongest Catholic identity, and like many of his generation, he carries the burden of Germany's past.
There were at least three
German popes in the
11th century - the last pope from a
German-speaking land was
Victor II, bishop of
Eichstatt, who reigned from 1055-57.
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