A year and a half has passed since the death of Pope Benedict XVI. This week, theologians are meeting in the Bavarian town of Altötting, where Germany's most important Marian shrine is located, not far from Joseph Ratzinger's birthplace, to discuss his enduring legacy. Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, says "I miss him very much because he was a very, very kind person. He was a person with a very deep faith and he was a very intelligent theologian. And these three characteristics in one person is characteristic for Pope Benedict." Even though Benedict XVI spent the last years of his life in seclusion as Pope Emeritus, people have not forgotten him. In Altötting, Rudolf Gehrig, reports.
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