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...First, it is worth noting one man who did not get his red hat. Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, the longtime president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, was thought by many to be in line for a Cardinal position. But last month, the Pope abruptly pulled the British-born Fitzgerald out of Rome and sent him to be the Vatican?s representative in Egypt, a "nuncio" posting that doesn?t come with a Cardinal promotion. Since Fitzerald had forged a rather soft policy as Rome's point man on Islam, the move was initially seen as another sign that Benedict...
...Friday, William J. Levada, former Archbishop of San Francisco, will become the first new Cardinal to be elevated by Pope Benedict XVI at a Vatican ceremony. Levada already has the Pontiff's old job maintaining Roman Catholic orthodoxy as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, making him the most influential U.S. prelate in history. He spoke with Time's Jeff Israely. how will you feel when you get your red hat from the Pope? Of course, I'm honored. But you also want to make sure your hat is on straight. Your new job places...
While Pope Benedict XVI is busy filling the shoes of John Paul II, a quiet American is trying to do the same in Benedict's old job. So how's it going for William J. Levada, former Archbishop of San Francisco, whom Benedict tapped to head the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith? "I'm past the deer-in-the-headlights phase," he told TIME last week in his first interview since he took office in August...
...with only a mere handful of them going to gay and lesbian couples. The Church’s dogmatic position on homosexuality, however, has forced it to grapple with Mass. law, which both requires anti-discriminatory policy in adoption and, more recently, permits same-sex marriage. According to Boston Archbishop Sean O’Malley, in the choice between its faith and state law, the Church feels obligated to “withdraw from the work of adoptions, in order to exercise the religious freedom that was the prompting for having begun adoptions many years ago.” While...
...experience. The trc, a courtlike body open to victims and perpetrators of apartheid-era violence, held public hearings for more than two years in the mid-1990s. Intended as a compromise between a war-crimes trial and national "amnesia," the Commission, led by South Africa's confessor in chief Archbishop Desmond Tutu, offered possible amnesty for perpetrators willing to divulge all they knew, and dignity and reparations for victims. The trc is often hailed by non?South Africans as an unmitigated success. "It's almost embarrassing," says Meiring, who has traveled to places such as Rwanda and Sri Lanka...