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Pope Benedict XVI pets Pushkin the cat, held by Fr Anton Guziel, at the Oratory of St Philip Neri in Birmingham, England, September 19, 2010. The pope visited the oratory after beatifying Cardinal John Henry Newman. The late Benedict XVI was known for his intellectual acumen as a theologian and philosopher, but perhaps his most relatable quality was that he was a cat person.
The cardinal told Famiglia Cristiana shortly after Benedict’s election how the future pope would talk to the Roman street cats: “He stopped and said a few words in German, probably in Bavarian dialect.” He said that when Ratzinger walked out of the church, the cats would follow him: “They knew him and loved him. He stayed with them and caressed them for a long time.”Chico was a red tabby cat who belonged to the Ratzinger’s neighbours in Pentling, Bavaria, immortalised in the illustrated book, Joseph and Chico: The Life of Pope Benedict XVI as Told by a Cat.
Chico, who was already fully grown at the time of Benedict’s election as pope, died in 2012, according to Perego.During Benedict XVI’s apostolic trip to the United Kingdom in 2010, he visited the Birmingham Oratory established by St John Henry Newman. Pushkin, who was 10 years old at the time, went on to live another eight years and even penned his own memoir, Pushkin the Pontifical Puss: Tails of an Oratory Cat, which also details the time he met Princess Michael of Kent.After Benedict XVI retired to Mater Ecclesiae Monastery inside the walls of Vatican City State, he continued to greet some of the cats who lived in the Vatican gardens. Two of the Vaticats in particular made an impression.
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