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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, of Regensburg, Germany, named Pope Benedict
XVI on April 19, 2005, was heralded in a New York Times headline as “A
lover of cats and Mozart,” remembered by former neighbor Rupert Hafbauer
as adoring cats, and greeted by PETA as a potential alley, based on a
2002 remark by Ratzinger that, “Industrial use of creatures, so that
geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible,
or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds,
this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me to contradict
the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.”
