Word: moralisms
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...Kony agreed to come out of the bush and be tried before a jury in a regional court. Why would the likes of Kony be swayed by the likes of Riccardi? Riccardi himself can only guess. "We are all volunteers," he ventures. "Our lack of vested interest gives us moral authority...
...Benedict and his values and coexistence is not an association that immediately crops up. Benedict clearly lacks his predecessor's charismatic affability and sense of the dramatic gesture. His conservative writings suggest a divergence from a large part of the U.S. laity, whom he regards as victims of the moral relativism he feels pervades Western culture. Given his past role as the Vatican's enforcer of orthodoxy, he might not seem to have any particular affinity for the democratic, pluralistic values that constitute (on our good days) the American brand...
...Puritan-instilled DNA. He is well aware that this is eroding; he thinks we watch too much TV and fears that American secularization is proceeding at an "accelerated pace." But he insists that there is a "much clearer and implicit sense" in the U.S. than in Europe of a morality "bequeathed by Christianity." He has also given earnest thought to the mechanics of this civil religion, specifying that to affect the moral consensus, it is not enough for Catholics to rub shoulders with other Christians; they must translate their concerns from doctrinal language into a "public theology" accessible...
...unique in this," says a senior Vatican official. "And Ratzinger wants to understand how those two aspects can coexist." Almost all the things the Pope likes about us--our faith in the real value of plainspokenness, our pluralistic piety and even our wrangles around applying religiously grounded moral principles to increasingly abstruse science--can be understood in light of this quest. If he finds answers in the U.S., they could help define his papacy...
...Zafran said. Zafran also said the speech reflected how he sees “eye-to-eye [with Richardson] on pretty much every issue.” “The places where he places emphasis are really the key priorities for the country: energy, education, our moral leadership in the world,” Zafran said. —Staff writer Victoria B. Kabak can be reached at vkabak@fas.harvard.edu...