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...bishops that rule the dioceses have driven out any plain talkers. That was all done with the iron hand of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger behind the scenes as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He wants a church made up of Ave Maria University zealots - the chosen few who will preserve Catholicism as the Pope envisions it in all its medieval splendor. To think that the church has gone from John XXIII to this Pope in just over 40 years. William Tunney, Grantsville...
...happy to come along, but not these few. All these years later, words fail. Modernity comes speaking the language of women's rights, of the dignity and self-determination of children, of limits on the authority of fathers--and even on the authority of prophets. For people who have chosen to sit the last century out, this doesn't compute...
...find one before June 29, the matter moves to the credentials committee, which is nearly twice as big and even more political - and over which Howard Dean will hold relatively little power. Imagine that: after a year of record-shattering turnout, the party's nominee could be chosen in a smoke-filled room - in July. If it comes to that, at least one person will be smiling: John McCain...
...impression that France has, in fact, already chosen commercial interests over human rights. This is a choice most countries tend to make. Stalin famously quipped, "The Pope? How many divisions has he got?" To plagiarize his formula today, one would say: "The Dalai Lama - how many contracts?" The Chinese, however, should not be too quick to celebrate their victory over hypocritical and mercantile democracies. The soft power of China - its ability to lead by example because people seek to emulate its success - has been seriously bruised in the last few weeks. And the Chinese leadership knows that their country needs...
...Jews are still unwelcome. It is important to remember the tragedy of the Jewish refugees as the students in the Harvard Nakba Committee commemorate the 1948 dispossession of Palestinian Arabs from Israel next week. While the Palestinian refugee crisis is a tragedy in its own right, the committee has chosen to commemorate the dispossession of approximately 750,000 Palestinian Arabs by adopting the reckless, revisionist history of Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, an apologist for terror (he once stated, “I support Hamas in its resistance against the Israeli occupation though I disagree with their political ideology?...