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...pursuing a diplomatic exit strategy that involves more help from Middle Eastern allies like Saudi Arabia and Egypt? Their interests certainly supersede ours, in that the tens of thousands of people who have been killed are their neighbors and not the U.S.'s. The war and attendant issues?its effect on the U.S. image abroad, oil business and humanitarian concerns?would be better handled by the regional powers on our side. Bruce Schulte Ardmore, Oklahoma...
...Pope's original invitation came in 2005, from the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church, which represents a nervous 0.01% of the country's population. The Turkish government, miffed that as a Cardinal, Joseph Ratzinger had opposed Turkey's urgent bid to join the European Union, finally issued its own belated offer for 2006. But even now, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has discovered a previous engagement that will take him out of the country while Benedict is in it. Although modest, sales of a Turkish novel subtitled Who Will Kill the Pope in Istanbul? (the book fingers...
...show that Islam sees God as so transcendent that reason is extraneous, Benedict cited an 11th century Muslim sage named Ibn Hazm. To establish the connection between this position and violence, he quoted a 15th century Christian Byzantine Emperor (and head of the Byzantine, or Eastern, Church) named Manuel II Paleologus. Paleologus criticized Muslims for "spreading [their faith] by the sword," both because "God is not pleased by blood" and because true conversion depended on reason. "Show me just what the Muhammad brought that was new," Paleologus said, in a passage quoted by Benedict, "and there you will find things...
After hours of deliberations that lasted until dawn yesterday, a top Crimson editor and former Lampoon business manager were appointed the secretary and treasurer of the Class of 2007. May Habib ’07, the associate managing editor of The Crimson and an economics and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations concentrator in Pforzheimer House, was named secretary. The new treasurer is Stefanie L. Botelho ’07, a government concentrator from Lowell House who worked on the business staffs of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used...
...simply ignore him. But the fact that the Pope called the meeting in the first place is telling. The question of specific dispensations and the broader question of celibacy is not a matter of fixed church doctrine, but has long been a tradition in the Latin church, while Eastern rite churches allow married men to become priests. Church insiders say that a small core of progressive Cardinals have been trying to open up discussion of the rules going well back into John Paul's papacy. Some observers even speak of the risk of a new schism with Milingo's departure...