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...Former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby consolidated the two deanships in 2003, ousting Lewis from his position as then-dean of undergraduate education Benedict H. Gross ’71 took the helm of the College. Kirby wrote in an e-mail that there was a “near-total separation of responsibilities regarding curriculum and the broader realm of undergraduate life” in the old structure...
Still, in the end, the Pope has not budged on the issue. The 2005 Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist held firm to the total ban for remarried Catholics who have not obtained an annulment. And Sunday, following Berlusconi's public request to his bishop, Benedict spoke about Communion to a gathering in Canada by video hookup. Though he didn't specifically cite divorce, the Pope said: "We must do all in our power to receive it with a pure heart." Again he offered his empathy for "those who cannot have Communion due to their situation," and urged them...
Rudolph Giuliani and Silvio Berlusconi share more than just Italian roots and an off-the-cuff approach to politics. The former mayor of New York and current Prime Minister of Italy also have the same beef with Pope Benedict XVI and the rules of the Catholic Church. Both political leaders are divorced and remarried Catholics, which shuts them out from receiving Holy Communion because of longstanding Church doctrine that forbids divorce. The ban, however, has not stopped either Berlusconi or Giuliani from receiving communion - and getting caught on camera doing so, with much tsk-tsking from the Church...
...Berlusconi, a media mogul who boasts about his Casanova talents, is publicly pushing for Benedict to change the Communion rules for remarried Catholics. A story in the Italian daily he owns, Il Giornale, recounted how the 71-year-old Prime Minister last Saturday passed up Communion, but asked the local bishop at the chapel near his villa on the island of Sardinia to reconsider the standing rules. Bishop Sebastiano Sanguinetti reportedly responded: "Go tell that to someone higher than me." There was no indication that Berlusconi had raised the matter when he met the pontiff earlier this month...
...rumblings on the specific issue of divorced Catholics were in large part stirred by the Pope himself. Shortly after rising to the papacy, Benedict said the problem needed "study." During a July 2005 meeting with priests from the Italian mountain region of Valle d'Aosta, the Pope said: "We all know that this is a particularly painful situation. None of us has a ready-made solution, because each person's situation is different...