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With all the shiny red hats and vestments, the elevation Friday of 15 new Cardinals reveals a lot about the (still) new man in white. Pope Benedict XVI?s first consistory comes less than a month before the one-year anniversary of his election, and the picture of the Pontiff is still taking shape. But his first additions to the top rung of the Church hierarchy - which include two prominent Americans, a Chinese prelate and Pope John Paul II?s personal secretary - give further clarity to both the form and substance of Benedict?s nascent reign...
...Rome and sent him to be the Vatican?s representative in Egypt, a "nuncio" posting that doesn?t come with a Cardinal promotion. Since Fitzerald had forged a rather soft policy as Rome's point man on Islam, the move was initially seen as another sign that Benedict is hardening the Vatican?s line on relations with Islam. In fact, the move was as much an administrative realigment: two weeks after Fitzgerald's appointment, his former office was merged with the Pontifical Council for Culture - and two more Vatican offices (the Pontifical Councils for Justice and Peace, and for Migrants...
...first new Cardinal to get his hat, former San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada, was Benedict?s biggest surprise. Levada was named last August to take the Pope?s old job as the Church?s point man on all doctrinal issues as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a post that Cardinal Ratzinger held under John Paul for 24 years. When Benedict gave the job to Levada, a friend since the two worked together in Rome in the early 1980s, most Vatican insiders were shocked, having expected a European intellectual heavyweight in the post. Message: Benedict...
...been working on the book since the summer of 2003. Lewis was forced from his post as dean in March 2003, when Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby restructured Harvard’s undergraduate branch by merging the College’s academic and social-life offices under Benedict H. Gross ’71. —Staff writer Daniel J. T. Schuker can be reached at dschuker@fas.harvard.edu...
...courses, either within one of the three divisions in the General Education plan or through individual departments. This way, students can deal with moral and ethical issues from a variety of perspectives.“If one takes a broader definition,” writes Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 in an e-mail, “then a large number of courses given by our faculty in the humanities would count. In this case, it isn’t clear to me that we would need to impose a separate requirement...