Word: benediction
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Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 could not be reached for comment yesterday...
Following abdominal surgery last week to remove a buildup of scar tissue, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 will be on leave for the next several weeks...
...deep reflection after the election of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI, I found myself reading over William Butler Yeats well-known and disturbing poem The Second Coming. The lasting image from this poem is of a civilization falling apart at the seams with the result that the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...
...Ratzinger came as a surprise to me, where it is clear that Europeans are not, in my mothers words, clamoring for the truth of the Church as are Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans. Yet it would be unwise to give into the easy reactions of despair and despondency. Benedict was right to begin his papacy with the quintessentially Christian phrase Be not afraid...
...doubt that is so pervasive in modern society to become institutionally embedded in the worlds oldest functioning religious body. This would be a mistake of monumental proportions, because one of the last firm centers of truth in this world would be compromised by the tyranny of relativism which Benedict noted scars our society...