Visiting the Sick

You have got to be kidding me -- can't the Pope's brother get a little privacy in the hospital? According to AP, this shot came from a video.... Amazing.

I wonder if Little Bro lent Big Georg the Tenth Floor suite. Whatever the case, we haven't had a Pope with immediate blood family in some time, and the Ratzi brothers are just devoted to each other, as it was with their sister Maria before she died in 1991 .

Though this goes against the usual Ratzinger reticence, it's a charming thing to be able to witness.

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