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At first glance, President Bush and Pope Benedict XVI offer a portrait in contrast: the swagger of a trust-my-gut Texan and the shyness of a cerebral theologian. But behind the photo-op set at Saturday's first-ever Bush-Benedict meeting were two men with some key traits...
“College students lack some of the background that graduate students have,” says Francis Fiorenza, the Stillman professor of Roman Catholic theological studies at the Divinity School. “It is difficult to keep undergraduates in mind.”
Yet immigration opponents in each of these periods had their reasons as well as their prejudices. In the late 1790s France and Ireland suffered revolutionary turmoil. French diplomats had interfered in U.S. politics. It seemed possible, as Otis warned, that some immigrants intended "to come here with a view to...
Immigration restrictionists typically underestimate the sheer gravitational power of American life. Immigration renews the immigrant more than it renews America. The Catholics who so worried the Know-Nothings became champion practitioners of democratic politics; in the 20th century, their descendants' devotion to religious and political liberty helped convert the worldwide...
Estimated number of people who attended Pope Benedict XVI's May 13 Mass in Aparecida, north of So Paulo, during which he condemned abortion and contraception. Brazil, the world's largest Catholic country, recorded some 125 million followers in 2000