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Not only is it considered impolitic to campaign for the papacy, it is also against Vatican law. The church bars elector Cardinals (those under 80) even from talking publicly about the matter. Still, as a frail John Paul celebrated the 25th anniversary of his papacy last week, a quiet campaign...
On a rainy day in September of my sophomore year, I spent the better share of a day running back and forth between my third-floor room in Currier and the courtyard along Garden Street with a pencil, a compass and a screwdriver. My suitemate, Charles, screamed down instructions as...
Keeper of the Straight and Narrow Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
But if his insistence on theological conformity inside the church was absolute, his warmth and generosity in reaching out to Christians outside the Catholic communion and to other faiths was without precedent. John Paul II will be remembered as much for his doctrinaire enforcement as for his ecumenical outreach - and...
"The entire world is experiencing a Pope who is sick, who is disabled and who is dying." CHRISTOPH CARDINAL SCHOENBORN, Archbishop of Vienna, on the declining health of Pope John Paul II