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...choice to make Spain - and a Catholic family conference - his third foreign trip helps hammer home a point. On the papal plane Saturday morning, Benedict said he wanted to focus on the ?positive," but restated the Church's firm opposition to gay unions. "It is true that there are certain things that Christian life says no to. We want to make people understand that according to human nature, it is a man and a woman who are made for each other and made to give humanity a future," he said. Still, the Pope remains the underdog in this intellectual tete...
Papal trips have their standard menu of metaphors and stated objectives: peace mission, pilgrimage, journey of reconciliation, personal homecoming. The official aim of Pope Benedict XVI?s lightning-quick visit to Spain was to celebrate the Christian family, helping to close the Catholic World Meeting of Families in Valencia this weekend. Intead, the Pope's much-anticipated handshake and photo op Saturday evening with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero looked more like a heavyweight boxing stare-down of ideas over the direction of Western civilization and the meaning of morality in the modern world...
...Since his March 2004 election, Zapatero has led a virtual revolution in social policy in once-devoutly Catholic Spain, legalizing gay marriage, easing divorce and encouraging stem-cell research. The 45-year-old Socialist leader has become the smiling symbol of Old Europe's rising secularism. Benedict may have had ?Zapatero's Spain" in mind when, on the eve of the conclave that chose him to replace Pope John Paul II, he denounced ?the dictatorship of relativism" in a powerful and oft-cited speech to his fellow Cardinals. In the 15 months since, the pontiff?s fierce intellect and clear...
...While this shift in popular Western attitudes may seem irreversible, Benedict is refusing to accept defeat. Austen Ivereigh, a top aide to Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, says the battle of ideas is still on. "Benedict is a real intellectual. He has an almost touching faith in the power of reason," says Ivereigh. "He's convinced that the intellectual arguments are on his side. The challenge for him is to make the case without looking like he's old-fashioned. How do you make the case about traditional marriage something interesting and exciting? But if any Pope...
...recently-created Advising Programs Office (APO) has finalized the team that will usher in the College’s newly-overhauled advising system, which includes a freshman advising program that could cost as much as $300,000 annually. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 announced late last month the three new additions to the APO, which is headed by Associate Dean of Advising Monique Rinere. In a bout of administrative shuffling, former Assistant Dean of Freshmen James N. Mancall and former Assistant Dean of Academic Advising Inge-Lise Ameer will both become assistant deans...