Word: benedict
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Nelson’s appointment, originally reported by the Cornell Daily Sun, comes as part of the ongoing restructuring of the College. While some University Hall administrators have departed and some have been shuffled into new positions, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 announced this past year a number of appointments and posts intended to help manage undergraduate life...
...Menand, the other committee members who attended the meeting were Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, Fisher Professor of Natural History and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Andrew Knoll, Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, an ex officio member of the committee, was also present, along with other guests...
...were hoping to get as much demolition, in the Pudding and so on, done as possible over the summer, because that’s the really noisy stuff,” Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 said...
...replaced the term with "barbaric." Yet Vatican Secretary of State Angelo Sodano subsequently muddied the waters by saying that "anti-Christian" had been intended to suggest that the attacks were inconsistent with Christian values rather than aimed at Christian targets. That in turn led to a careful clarification by Benedict that the bombings represented "not a clash of civilizations, but only a small group of fanatics." Asked whether Islam is a religion of peace, he mused, "I wouldn't want to label it with big general words. Certainly there are also elements that can favor peace and other elements...
...acknowledged that a Pope is not an "oracle" and "is infallible only in rare situations--"a truism, but fresh, given what critics called the papal triumphalism of his predecessor. Benedict also challenged a phenomenon in which John Paul often reveled--the explosion of priestly vocations in the developing world, which the new Pope said sometimes owes less to faith than to seminarians' quest for material gain and "social promotion" in their villages. If the global south is the church's future, he apparently plans...