Pope Benedict lived an interesting life which certainly shows his devotion to Christ and the strength of his faith. His teenage years under the Nazi regime and his enduring his faith, despite the attempts to indoctrinate him, in a time when many who shared his faith were murdered or sent to concentration camps. Has lived and suffered through oppression, and seen the worst of human life from his time as a soldier in the German Army when Germany was being defeated and over run and it's cities were being destroyed by bombing. He saw the women and children whose homes were destroyed and were living in a land totally devasted by the war. So if you look at his life you see a man who has seen and experienced great suffering beyond that most people today could ever imagine but he maintained his faith in Christ and used it to guide his life.