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Benedict XVI's maiden papal voyage began today with cheering pilgrims and a retinue of reporters and bishops and bodyguards following his every step. Looming over the German pontiff's emotional homecoming, though, is Pope John Paul II and his imposing legacy of global outreach. John Paul not only racked up the miles-104 foreign trips during his 26-year papacy-he also had a natural gift for leaving both spiritual and political footprints almost anywhere he touched down (and kissed the ground): subtly undermining the Communist regime with emotional sermons in his native Poland; challenging breakaway priests of Latin...
...young Catholics every few years for prayer, teachings and music. Providence would beckon when he closed his last World Youth Day in Toronto in 2002 by announcing that the next edition would be here in Cologne. That meant that three years later and four months after the Vatican's German-born doctrinal chief Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was elected Pope, the first WYD without John Paul would turn into a homecoming for his successor. And Benedict seemed genuinely moved by his arrival on a warm, sunny day, carrying a beaming smile throughout a series of encounters with local authorities...
Ever since German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder announced plans in May for snap elections this fall, it was a given that Angela Merkel would boot the Social Democrats out of office. But now, with the campaign in full swing, it's beginning to look as though her only option will be to form a cumbersome grand coalition with her political opponents. For now, Merkel's Christian Democrats (cdu) are still ahead of Schröder's Social Democrats - by 13 points in the Election Research Group's latest weekly poll for zdf television. But missteps...
...social Europe,” of which France is the main proponent. Within Europe, France stands for protectionism in face of the Anglo-American model, and is also a great beneficiary of the EU’s generous and controversial agricultural subsidies. Despite the solidarity expressed by the German chancellor in the wake of the French referendum, the path France has taken cannot but weaken its long-term claims to leadership within the EU as well as the economic benefits it claims from the EU’s redistributive policies...
...feel like someone broke into my house and tried to rearrange my furniture." DEIRDRE BAIR, author of a biography of the late Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, reacting to publisher Random House's decision to insert two pages of information contradicting her thesis into the German edition of her book at the insistence of Jung's family...