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Hans scratches, Rome
The will of God is unfathomable, and this insight really grabs the visitor on St. Peter’s Square in Rome. After the rosary was prayed there early Thursday and the celestial music had faded away, Pope Francis raised his first words at the requiem for the emeritus Pope Benedict XVI. on. At that very moment, the news of the death of German ski heroine Rosi Mittermaier popped up on many smartphones. Amazement and shock spread, “two model Bavarians in one day,” whispered a woman who had traveled to Rome with a delegation from Bavaria to say goodbye to the Bavarian Pope, shaking her head.