Finally, US TV audiences will have a chance to see the footage shot by RAI-TV in 2007 for the late Giuseppe di Carli's loving documentary for Benedict XVI's 80th birthday in 2007.... From the trailer about a program premiering tonight on the History Channel (it means it will be repeated in the future more than once if the channel execs think it has a viewership or it becomes topical), the footage to which the words 'secret access' refer are the sequences in the RAI video which document 'a day in the life of Benedict XVI"...
Entertainment Tonight
March 31, 2011
Airing on the History Channel, "Secret Access: The Vatican" is a two-hour special that goes behind the scenes and gives viewers a rare insight into the life of Pope Benedict XVI as well as the history of the Catholic Church's seat of power.
The program covers the daily life of the Pope from his daily work in the Vatican to spending his free time by playing piano or relaxing and watching television.
"Secret Access: The Vatican" also uncovers historical connections between the United States and the Vatican. Viewers are shown letters written between Pope Pius VII and Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis during the height of the American Civil War in 1963. Lincoln was sending a special representative to the Pope, and Davis was asking for the Pope to recognize the Confederate States.
"Secret Access: The Vatican" premieres tonight on History at 9 p.m.
VIDEOS OF JOSEPH RATZINGER'S
PRIESTLY ORDINATION 6/29/1951 and
EPISCOPAL ORDINATION 5/24/1977
As indicated by Lella on her blog, the Italian website
has put together on the same page the video links for both ordinations of Joseph Ratzinger. Many will probably have seen both before, but I think the video on the 1951 ordination (from Gloria TV) is substantially longer than the fragment I remember from earlier. It is rather jumpy though - as if the original film was video-recorded on erratic speed. and it certainly could do with the services of a video-restorer.
http://www.google.com/translate?hl=it&sl=it&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cantualeantonianum.com%2F2011%2F03%2Feccezionale-documento-il-video.html&anno=2
The start of the video establishes Freising Catehdral and the statue of St. Corbinian in the top niche of the facade.
The Te Igitur blog captured the following moments for the 24-year-old Joseph is : top row - laying of hands and vesting; second row, anointing of hands and offertory.
And from Te Igitur's last videocap of the post-ordination procession, my attempt to get a closer shot - to compare with the family picture below it which was taken after the two sons had been ordained, and the cropped head shot from it.
This is the You Tube link for the episcopal ordination in Munich,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnwuH01LrY0&feature=player_embedded
and those of you who are familiar with it will remember that the best thing about it - in my opinion -
is the new bishop's youthful bell-like voice and wonderfully clear enunciation...
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