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...everyone involved, so my understanding of it was there wasn’t much contention over it,” Petersen said. “I don’t think students could imagine Lamont any other way than 24/5, except maybe 24/7.” —Christian B. Flow contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer David Jiang can be reached at djiang@fas.harvard.edu...
...Motley said. “If it is in fact true that there are ‘poverty wages’ for these workers, then I don’t think anybody in our club would disagree with this.” —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...Ratzinger was "Cardinal No." As Pope John Paul II's enforcer of orthodoxy, he condemned errant personal behavior among the Catholic faithful, and reined in dissident Church theologians. Now, as pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI spends most of his time trying to convince his followers to say yes to the Christian gospel. Indeed his one Encyclical, Deus Caritas Est (God is Love), surprised some of his longtime critics by the positive note on which he was beginning his now two-year-old papacy. There have, though, been intermittent reminders that the old Ratzinger thinking lives on inside the person...
...Helping those in need is at the very heart of the Christian faith, and Benedict appears inclined to strongly reiterate that principle. In his 2005 encyclical, he wrote passionately about the need to faith and charity one and the same. "For the Church, charity is not a kind of welfare activity which could equally well be left to others, but is a part of her nature, an indispensable expression of her very being," he writes. "It is time to reaffirm the importance of prayer in the face of the activism and the growing secularism of many Christians engaged in charitable...
...director of Caritas, the worldwide Catholic charity, says Benedict's message is a subtle departure from the Church's tradition of social teaching, which has been about changing unjust social structures. MacLaren told TIME: "The Pope is saying that there is something inside us, that there should be a Christian transformation within the process of people serving others." But it remains to be seen whether Benedict's emphasis on a personal spiritual response to poverty and inequality will satisfy those in his church who emphasize the fight for social justice outside of its walls...