Word: benedict
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...place like this, words fail. In the end, there can only be a dread silence--a silence which is itself a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this?" POPE BENEDICT XVI, at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz during a visit to Poland, the birthplace of his predecessor, John Paul...
Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ‘71, who announced Edwards’ departure in an e-mail to staff Wednesday, said that the College will conduct a search for a new director for the office this summer...
...point by returning to the specific question of Christianity: ?By destroying Israel, they ultimately wanted to tear up the taproot of the Christian faith and to replace it with a faith of their own invention: faith in the rule of man, the rule of the powerful,? he said. Benedict went on to say that the remains of cruelty on display at the extermination camps ?don?t instill hatred in us; instead they show us the terrifying effect of hatred...
...mention of his personal experience during the war; the then Joseph Ratzinger was an unwilling member of the Hitler Youth as a teenager in his native Bavaria. He also did not explicitly ask for forgiveness on behalf of Catholics or Germans. Some Jews will likely be left unsatisfied by Benedict?s avoiding the topic of his homeland's potential collective responsibility for the Holocaust, placing the blame on a ?ring? of Nazi criminals who also victimized the Germans...
...Almost as if on cue, as Benedict's voyage to Auschwitz drew toward its close early Sunday evening, the wind picked up and a cool rain began to fall. The final ceremony began with the Pope pausing to pray at memorials in the different languages of the 1.5 million killed. But by the time he reached the final plaque, the rain had stopped, the umbrellas were tucked away, and the pack of reporters noticed that across the broad field of half-standing brick barracks of Birkenau, a vivid rainbow had appeared. The editors of TIME, like those...