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...world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance or even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant." POPE BENEDICT XVI, making charity and love a priority for the Catholic Church in his first encyclical since his election last April
...Almighty God's gift to each man and woman in this world." A lovely sentiment, a beautiful line, a potentially disastrous policy. It is common wisdom among serious democracy advocates that there are preconditions for successful representative government. There must be a solid middle class; there must be the rule of law and freedom of speech. But a more elusive human quality is necessary as well: a drastic change of public sensibility from passivity toward active engagement. In a place like Iraq-or the former Soviet Union-passivity was a survival mechanism. The best way to live with a tyrant...
...described by the nuns, limbo [the afterlife for infants who die before being baptized] was similar to life on earth but without sickness, death, unhappiness or failure. I was absolutely furious that I had been baptized and was therefore ineligible for limbo. Heaven, on the other hand, involved endless God worshipping and constant harp strumming. It struck me as terribly boring. The only thing heaven had going for it was that it was not so painful as purgatory or hell. Judith A. Merrill Wethersfield, Connecticut, U.S. Secret Snooping Time reported on the controversy over President George W. Bush's secret...
...State," which must be responsible for caring for the needy and creating a just society. "The Church cannot and must not take upon herself the political battle to bring about the most just society possible," he writes. "But this does not mean that charitable activity must somehow leave God and Christ aside." He said Catholics doing good works need not proselytize in the process, but added that "a Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let love speak alone...
...rendering his work relevant for believer and non-believer alike. An avid Mozart fan, the new Pope might even be open to the message from the old Beatles' song "All You Need is Love." He would insist, of course, on ergo to the title: "All You Need Is God...