Posted AT 1:31 PM EDT on 19/04/05
Cheers, jubilation in hometown
Traunstein, Germany —
Seminarians at the seminary where Joseph Ratzinger studied for the priesthood as a teenager in the 1940s erupted in cheers Tuesday at the news he had become the leader of the Roman Catholic church.
Students at St. Michael's seminary in Traunstein pumped their hands in the air, and the schools director was in tears.
“I'm completely overwhelmed. I can't fathom what happened,” Rev.
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