On this day 60 years ago (Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, June 1951), the great German Catholic Cardinal, Michael von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich and Freising, laid his hands on the 24-year old deacon who would one day become Pope Benedict XVI and on his older brother Georg and 42 other young men, ordaining them to the priesthood.
What We're Celebrating Today as Catholics
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