Benedict's Cat

Cat Lovers Appreciate Soul Mate in Vatican
By Andy Newman
Published: April 21, 2008

Excerpt:
Benedict’s kindness toward the strays of Rome is already the stuff of Vatican legend. His house in Germany, its garden guarded by a cat statue, was filled with cats when Benedict lived there full time before he was posted to the Vatican in 1982.

And Benedict is, without a doubt, the first pope to have had an authorized biography of him written by a cat — Chico, a ginger tabby who lives across the road from Benedict’s old house in Germany.

“I think it shows a sensitive side, and I believe it shows that God lives in a person,” Ms. Fredericks said Friday. “I think all leaders should have compassion for animals.” the rest image

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Joseph and Chico: The Life of Pope Benedict XVI as Told by a Cat