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The signature sound bite of Benedict XVI's papacy may have been delivered the day before he became Pope. Just hours before entering the Sistine Chapel to help choose John Paul II's successor, then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger gave an impassioned sermon in which he decried the "dictatorship of relativism...
CHOSEN. Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, 71, Archbishop of Genoa, as Pope Benedict XVI's next secretary of state; in the Vatican. A longtime aide to the current Pope, Cardinal Bertone will become the Vatican's de facto prime minister, replacing fellow Italian Angelo Cardinal Sodano in September.
Are the bishops happy with it? Almost certainly not. Did they have a choice? Well, at the beginning of this year they received an instruction from Cardinal Francis Arinze, head of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship, declaring it "not acceptable to maintain that people have become accustomed to...
In the end, the new Pope?s physical presence at Auschwitz - his gestures - were really the news. His deep prayers in front of the wall of death where prisoners were regularly executed; the two-cheeked kiss he shared with a Jewish survivor; his using German for the first time all...
There is a sense among Vatican insiders that these two recent decisions - along with a looming decision to replace Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano - is a sign that Benedict is getting a sure handle on the running of the massive church hiearchy. Still, the Pope knows he can't...