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Benedict XVI got 9/11, a worldwide issue, and the priest sex abuse scandal, an in-house problem that captured the horrified imagination even of Americans outside the Catholic house. And Benedict's reaction this past week to the abuse issue would have to be scored a public-approval knockout, from...
On the scorecard of the non-Catholic world, Popes - even more so than other leaders - tend to be counter-punchers. Within their churches they are lions, proactively setting courses and slapping down dissent. Outside it, however, they tend to be judged by how they deal with what's on the...
The Cardinal took issue with the question, denying that there was "a generation" of bishops involved, or that they "aided and abetted." Some bishops, he said, had come to him saying that they had acted on bad psychiatric diagnoses at a time when the high recidivism rate of sexual predators...
Which is why this Sunday's presidential election promises to be such an important turning point for Paraguay - and one that holds significance for the rest of South America. The front-runner is a former Catholic bishop, Fernando Lugo, a liberal whose base is the poor rural heartland, where he...
Ironically, one of Lugo's largest blocs of opponents is Catholic churchgoers who feel betrayed by his renunciation of his priestly vows. "If Lugo can lie to the Pope, he can lie to anyone," says Lino Oviedo, a former army general who is running a close third in polls - and...