Word: benediction
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...University President since taking office on July 1, and the first time Michael D. Smith addressed them in his role as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. And veteran administrator David Pilbeam—who stepped in as interim dean of Harvard College after former Dean Benedict H. Gross ’71 resigned recently—had not spoken at opening ceremonies in 20 years...
...pilgrimage, Pope Benedict XVI insisted, not a political outing. The pontiff's just-completed stay in Austria was built around a visit to Mariazell, an 850-year-old shrine to Mary in the foothills of the Alps, just over two hours south of Vienna. And though Benedict used his three-day trip to touch on some familiar hot-button issues both inside and outside his Church - abortion, euthanasia, the so-called "de-Christianization" of Europe - he did so in a context and spirit that matched the humble "just-a-pilgrimage" billing he announced just before takeoff from Rome on Friday...
...intellectuals - an unquestionably big thinker with the world's biggest platform for espousing his ideas. Speaking in his native German, and amongst believers much like those from the neighboring region of Bavaria where he was born, the Pope seemed especially comfortable on this latest trip. In a steady rain, Benedict pulled out the latest nuggets from his seemingly inexhaustible mine of deep thoughts on a now familiar theme: why his black-and-white brand of faith is the right response in a contemporary world given to compromises and what he disparagingly and repeatedly calls relativism. "Our faith is decisively opposed...
...Benedict has made his mark as a Pope by exploring timeless philosophical questions with a keen sense of the contemporary context, and by making complex Christian theology digestible for the masses. Progressive Catholics may not like his proselytizing for the traditions of the faith, but no one can deny the clarity with which he lays out his vision...
...Church continues to recover from a sex abuse scandal in the 1990s in which the then Archbishop of Vienna Hans Wilhelm Groer was forced to resigned under allegations that he himself had been a perpetrator. Indeed, some will consider the trip a success - even if a quiet one - if Benedict can simply heal old wounds rather than open new ones...