"He'll leave a lot of stuff behind, and we'll pick it up and chew on it again and again."

Who? What stuff? Where? From ZENIT:

"Secularism [in Germany] is of course painful to him," says Paul Badde, the Rome correspondent for the German daily, Die Welt. "He's coming from a Catholic universe, a Catholic family in a little German Catholic village. It wasn't an unbroken world, but after 1945 he had to witness it being broken even more through an accelerated process of secularism that began in Germany." Such an ingrained turning away from the Church, Badde believes, makes this visit "more complicated" than his much publicized state visit to Britain last year -- a visit which "was easy game for him in the end."  ...

Badde, author of the recent book "The Holy Face of Manoppello," believes that rather than a minority, a "silent majority" exists in Germany who are actually behind what the Church teaches. And he sees them steadily becoming less silent. "With the Internet we have a phenomenon going on that is not dissimilar to what happened in Egypt -- voices are being heard," he says, "Catholic media used to be in the hands of modernist pressure groups, but this isn't the case anymore." 

But both Father Hagenkord and Badde believe this Pope's real impact on Germany won't be felt for some years to come. "This is a Pope we'll speak of in 20-30 years time," says Father Hagenkord. "He'll leave a lot of stuff behind, and we'll pick it up and chew on it again and again." Still, he doesn't think the "old Catholic faith we used to know" will ever come back to Germany. "That has gone, so we have to establish a new way of being Catholic," he says. "The Pope will contribute to this, as will others, in sharpening our identity -- what it means to be Catholic."

Read the entire article, "A Hard Trip Home" (Sept. 1, 2011). For more about Paul Badde's book, The Face of God: The Rediscovery Of The True Face of Jesus, visit FaceOfGodBook.com.