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TIME's cover stories on the election of Pope Benedict XVI and about his religious philosophy were excellent [May 2]. I believe he was chosen by the Holy Spirit. It's fine to talk of worldly politics, but in the end, the Pope, Christ's vicar on earth, is elected simply because it is the will of God. I have absolutely no doubt that Benedict is the right man to lead the church...
...that his suffering has ended and he is home now with God. I understand a certain degree of nostalgia, but for people to focus collectively on the worldly death rather than the rewards of heaven tells me that their faith is earthbound. That is an emotional negation of Jesus Christ's spiritual promise of eternal life. True believers should be cheering John Paul's departure and longing for the day they meet again with him in God's very own realm. Humberto Sarkis Beverly Hills, California, U.S. Imagine: the realpolitik savvy of a Henry Kissinger combined with the moral code...
...common with Pope Benedict’s view that there is only one way to salvation, and it is certainly not achieved by cruising the virtual streets of LA as Beelzebub himself. With this I can see a wondrous combination of Christian initiatives, all for the electronic glory of Christ. Even the binary nature of computer programming is analogous to the Church’s Good vs. Evil dichotomy. With Vatican funding and American marketing and development, the Christian video game market would be set to explode. The collaborations could be momentous. I am sure that Mel Gibson would...
...when I saw their Christ, I cried?...
...When Kumin reached the end of high school, the admissions committee at her first-choice college, Wellesley, cared little about her personal relationship with Christ. At the time, Wellesley “had a very stringent Jewish quota,” Kumin recalled—and in Wellesley’s eyes, however fond she may have been of Jesus, Maxine Winokur was still a Jew. She was rejected...