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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (2005–2013, formerly Joseph Ratzinger) adores cats, and by all accounts, the feeling is mutual. Photos abound of the former pontiff in the company of cats, and there are nearly as many stories about the serious man being a ‘cat whisperer’. Benedict’s brother, Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, writes about Benedict’s feline affinity in his book, My Brother, the Pope. In the late 1960s, the future Pope received daily visits from a local cat in Tubingen, Germany, who would accompany the then-theology professor to lectures and mass. The cat followed Ratzinger so closely that many locals assumed the professor had trained it to do so.