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...places you in the top ranks of the Vatican hierarchy. Does the responsibility of your new office feel overwhelming? I can say that I'm past the deer-in-the-headlights phase. The biggest challenge now is the amount of reading - not only of new material, but rereading documents and decisions taken by the Congregation. how do you respond to the spread of violence in the name of another world religion, Islam? If a religious leader is preaching violence, he has mistaken his religion. Religion is about our vision and worship of God, and recognition that we are part...
Good thing. The most influential U.S. prelate in Roman Catholic history, Levada is tasked with maintaining doctrine and discipline among the 1.1 billion faithful at a time when several issues threaten to divide the flock. In November the church issued a controversial Instruction on gay seminarians. To Levada, "the document is very clear. A person with deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not suited for the priesthood." Another tricky topic: Should politicians be denied Communion if they espouse policies that contradict church teaching? Levada would like to see that debated more but says, "There are certain teachings that, as Catholics...
...Hardly. The document is not binding and it's largely theoretical. After all, since 9/11 North Korea is widely assumed to have developed at least a few nuclear weapons and Iran has continued with its nuclear program, and we've taken no military action against either country. Indeed, the U.S. military is bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan and is severely limited in what it can do elsewhere. Still, the document turns up the heat on Iran saying, "we face no greater challenge from a single country than from Iran,"-though it notably does not single out North Korea...
...document does go out of its way, albeit rather cryptically, to warn China against "old ways of thinking and acting" in its worldwide pursuit of oil and other energy sources. And it also laments Russia's faltering commitment to democracy...
...document weighs in on genocide, avian flu, AIDS, drug cartels and other stateless threats to American safety, but it doesn't offer a new strategy on these topics, beyond reiterating what the administration has done such as the $15 billion, five-year effort to stem AIDS. As with much of life, especially in Washington, the details get worked out later...