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Though already well-known in Catholic theological circles, the 50-year-old Father Joseph Ratzinger was prepared to live out a life of relative obscurity in the quiet confines of German academia. Then one day in 1977, the professor-priest received a fateful visit from a Church official in his study at the University of Regensburg. "We chatted about some insignificant matters," Ratzinger recalled in his memoirs "Milestones, 1927-1977" "and then finally he pressed a letter into my hand, telling me to read it and think it over at home...
...Saturday, he was back in Munich, where the sun was still shining. This time, of course, the warm welcome was not for some "unknown", but for the hometown priest-made-pope. Still, with surveys showing faith on the wane on the native soil of the Holy Father, the Pope was doing his best to keep positive as he spoke with reporters just before takeoff on a jet at Rome's Ciampino airport...
...confirmed to reporters on the plane that he plans to take momentous trips to Turkey and Brazil. Back at headquarters, he also seems intent on moving forward with a reform of the Roman Curia hiearchy (see TIME.com on Monday). And while one does get the sense that the Holy Father is pacing himself (he has spent extended periods the last two summers at the relatively calm confines of Castel Gandolfo south of Rome) there is also appears to be a growing awareness from this shy former professor that his personal touch is necessarily a big part of being Pope...
...TIME: President Bush's father did not occupy Iraq. What about the occupation of Iraq...
...Khatami: I don't know what President Bush, the father, would have done. But I know that eliminating Saddam [Hussein] has been to our benefit, to the benefit of Iran. I also predicted that getting into Iraq would be very easy [for America], but getting out of it would be extremely difficult. And today, Saddam is gone but Iraq has become the center stage of extremism and radicalism...