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...views expressed by some of the Pope's principal associates. Chief among them is Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and adjudged the Pope's most influential aide on internal church issues. The cardinal spelled out his views in a series of forthright interviews that were published in book form this year in several languages (U.S. version, published last month: The Ratzinger Report, Ignatius Press, $9.95). Ratzinger's remedy for the "self-destruction" of Roman Catholicism over the past 20 years is to "reconstruct the church" by returning to "the authentic texts...
...He’s incredibly forthright and grounded,” she said...
...better sense of how the police have responded and whether they’re doing enough,” Carter says. “No school, college or university wants to be known as a dangerous campus...They don’t have any incentive to be truly forthright...
...when Alzheimer’s, cancer, and diabetes have all been relegated to the list of ailments we no longer fear. Fundamentally, both sides wish to see advances in medical science and both sides recognize the potential of stem cell treatment. What needs to occur is a forthright debate over the exact nature of the research that is permissible, not another fruitless battle of the forces of “science” against those of “ignorance” and “superstition...
After the event, Woodruff said Mehlman and Cahill had been “forthright...