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So while the Pope enjoys his homecoming this week (Monday he traveled to the small Bavarian town of Marktl am Inn where he was born), Vatican insiders say the beginning of the Benedict era back at the Roman Curia begins in earnest this fall. Some, in fact, predict that Bertone...
(3 of 4) An adviser to another Socialist challenger, former Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, strikes a similar note. "What the polls measure is popularity, not competence," he says. "Socialists have a furious love of debate, and she's not debating. What does she think about debt, about foreign policy...
Non-prosperity parties from both conservative�and more progressive evangelical camps recently have been trying to reverse the trend. Eastern University professor Ron Sider's book Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, a fringe classic after its publication in 1977, is selling far more copies now, and some young...
Though already well-known in Catholic theological circles, the 50-year-old Father Joseph Ratzinger was prepared to live out a life of relative obscurity in the quiet confines of German academia. Then one day in 1977, the professor-priest received a fateful visit from a Church official in his...
That letter contained the Bavarian native?s appointment to become his home region's Archbishop in Munich. It was a choice (by Pope Paul VI) that not only altered Ratzinger's career path, but the course of Catholic Church history. After five years as Munich Arcbishop, Ratzinger was eventually called...