Pope Benedict XVI Never Aspired to Be Pope: Historian

...Pope Benedict XVI was the oldest pope to be elected at age 78 on April 19, 2005, but according to a Catholic historian, the now 85-year-old pontiff never aspired to become pope.

Writer and historian Michael Hesemann spent months interviewing Monsignor Georg Ratzinger at his home in Regensburg to capture the intimate details of his life with the pope, from childhood to papacy. The two brothers have always been close.

These interviews became Ratzinger’s memoirs in a book titled “My Brother, The Pope,” which came out last March....