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German cardinal guards Benedict’s intellectual legacy

German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his apartment in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Benedict gave his fellow German theologian his old job, as prefect of the Vatican’s doctrine office. He entrusted his life’s theological works to Mueller, who has spent nearly two decades organizing them in a 16-volume, 25,000-page opus along the lines of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. He gave him his old flat on the top floor of a Vatican apartment building, where he had lived as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis) German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his apartment in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Benedict gave his fellow German theologian his old job, as prefect of the Vatican’s doctrine office. He entrusted his life’s theological works to Mueller, who has spent nearly two decades organizing them in a 16-volume, 25,000-page opus along the lines of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. He gave him his old flat on the top floor of a Vatican apartment building, where he had lived as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis) German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller shows one of the volumes containing the writings of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI he keeps in his apartment during an interview with The Associated Press in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Benedict gave his fellow German theologian his old job, as prefect of the Vatican’s doctrine office. He entrusted his life’s theological works to Mueller, who has spent nearly two decades organizing them in a 16-volume, 25,000-page opus along the lines of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. He gave him his old flat on the top floor of a Vatican apartment building, where he had lived as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis) German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller looks out of a window of his apartment from where he can see the apostolic palace at The Vatican, during an interview with The Associated Press in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Benedict gave his fellow German theologian his old job, as prefect of the Vatican’s doctrine office. He entrusted his life’s theological works to Mueller, who has spent nearly two decades organizing them in a 16-volume, 25,000-page opus along the lines of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. He gave him his old flat on the top floor of a Vatican apartment building, where he had lived as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis) German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his apartment in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Benedict gave his fellow German theologian his old job, as prefect of the Vatican’s doctrine office. He entrusted his life’s theological works to Mueller, who has spent nearly two decades organizing them in a 16-volume, 25,000-page opus along the lines of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. He gave him his old flat on the top floor of a Vatican apartment building, where he had lived as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis) German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his apartment in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Benedict gave his fellow German theologian his old job, as prefect of the Vatican’s doctrine office. He entrusted his life’s theological works to Mueller, who has spent nearly two decades organizing them in a 16-volume, 25,000-page opus along the lines of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. He gave him his old flat on the top floor of a Vatican apartment building, where he had lived as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis) German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller pauses during an interview with The Associated Press in his apartment in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Benedict gave his fellow German theologian his old job, as prefect of the Vatican’s doctrine office. He entrusted his life’s theological works to Mueller, who has spent nearly two decades organizing them in a 16-volume, 25,000-page opus along the lines of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. He gave him his old flat on the top floor of a Vatican apartment building, where he had lived as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. In the foreground, Muller's glasses rest on his desk. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis) German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his apartment in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Benedict gave his fellow German theologian his old job, as prefect of the Vatican’s doctrine office. He entrusted his life’s theological works to Mueller, who has spent nearly two decades organizing them in a 16-volume, 25,000-page opus along the lines of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. He gave him his old flat on the top floor of a Vatican apartment building, where he had lived as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis) German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller points at the apostolic palace from a window of his apartment during an interview with The Associated Press in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Benedict gave his fellow German theologian his old job, as prefect of the Vatican’s doctrine office. He entrusted his life’s theological works to Mueller, who has spent nearly two decades organizing them in a 16-volume, 25,000-page opus along the lines of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. He gave him his old flat on the top floor of a Vatican apartment building, where he had lived as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis) German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his apartment in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Benedict gave his fellow German theologian his old job, as prefect of the Vatican’s doctrine office. He entrusted his life’s theological works to Mueller, who has spent nearly two decades organizing them in a 16-volume, 25,000-page opus along the lines of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. He gave him his old flat on the top floor of a Vatican apartment building, where he had lived as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
German cardinal guards Benedict’s intellectual legacy