The pope's right-hand fraulein.ROME -- For the past 14 years Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's housekeeper was a woman by the name of Ingrid Stampa, a member of the secular institute In the Roman Catholic Church, a secular institute is an organization of individuals who are consecrated -- professing the Evangelical counsels of poverty, obedience and chastity -- while living in the world as lay people, not members of a religious order. of the Schoenstatt Sisters and an accomplished professor of music. In fact, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. News, the two occasionally play duets together--he on the piano and she on the viola de gamba, an ancient stringed instrument stringed instrument, any musical instrument whose tone is produced by vibrating strings. Those whose strings are plucked with the finger or a plectrum include the balalaika, banjo, guitar, harp, lute, mandolin, zither, the sitar of India and Pakistan, the koto of . She has been called Benedict's closest personal connection. And she doesn't just prepare meals; she is also said to have assisted Benedict with preparing his installation homily homily (hŏm`əlē), type of oral religious instruction delivered to a church congregation. In the patristic period through the Middle Ages the focus of the homily was on the explanation and application of texts read or sung during the and was the German translator for many of John Paul II's books. On the day Benedict was elected, Stampa was out in St. Peter's Square to hear the news, and when she heard his name announced, she broke down in tears, according to Agence France Presse. That night, before the new pope sat down to dinner with the cardinals who chose him, he came over to her, and she bent to kiss his ring. But he stopped her, saying, "God wanted it this way. Let us both follow the will of God." |
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