Jubilation from seminarians in Pope's hometown

Students at the seminary where Joseph Ratzinger studied for the priesthood as a teenager in the 1940s erupted in cheers today at the news that their townsman had become the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

Students at the seminary where Joseph Ratzinger studied for the priesthood as a teenager in the 1940s erupted in cheers today at the news that their townsman had become the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

Students at St Michael’s seminary in Traunstein, Germany, pumped their hands in the air, and the schools director was in tears.

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