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When the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, met with reporters on the eve of Pope Benedict XVI's arrival in France on Friday, he ended up presiding over a heady mélange of funeral and lively TV talk show...
...percent," he said. "That's not the case at all." Next, someone cited French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran's statement that the Pope would come to Paris to "set the clock straight" on French Catholicism. Vingt-Trois cocked his head, and said such words don't correspond to "Benedict's style." Finally, a questioner declared that the French Church was the Grande Malade (the Sick Lady) of worldwide Catholicism. An exasperated Vingt-Trois finally gave a bit of ground. "Our Church has difficulties, which are quite visible for everyone to see," he said. "But it is not the Sick Lady...
...Even those Catholics who do follow their faith have little hope that Benedict's four-day visit - which will include a mass in central Paris and a visit to the southwest pilgrimage town of Lourdes - can make a real difference. "It will create a buzz, but I don't think it will create a very deep feeling of religion," said Guillaume de Galard, 32, exiting mass on a recent Sunday in downtown Paris. "It will only exist for his time he's here...
...More than history and symbols, Benedict is aiming at the future - and as he sees it, saving souls. He is keenly aware of the challenge in the heart of his native Europe, which has been drifting from its faith over the past century. Friday marks two years to the day from the most potent moment of his papacy, a provocative discourse at the University of Regensburg about how faith and reason can, and must, coexist. Though the Sep. 12, 2006 speech is best remembered for its citation of a Byzantine emperor's insults of the prophet Muhammed, which sparked Muslim...
...Benedict, himself one of the top theologians of the modern era, was a student of Newman's writings. Knowing this, former Prime Minister Tony Blair brought three photographs of Newman to Benedict as a gift on his last visit to the Vatican, just months before announcing that he - like the English prelate - had converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism. In a 1990 address marking a century since Newman's death, Ratzinger spoke about the profound impact Newman's views had on young German seminarians in the wake of the Nazi regime. "For us at that time, Newman's teaching on conscience...