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...prone to self-criticism or changes of direction. His millennial efforts to force the church to confront its failings - not only in respect to Jews, but also in relation to Muslims, Christians of other denominations and even sometimes its own flock - are the exception rather than the norm in papal history. But a specific apology for the actions of a predecessor currently in the process of beatification (Pius XII) may have been beyond his reach, given the complex and contested process by which the Vatican makes decisions. The absence of an apology for Pius XII didn...
...Judaism's holiest temple. "The Palestinian Authority will do everything in its power to make the trip appear to confirm its claim on East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital, while the Israelis will do everything to prevent that and to stake their own claims," says Beyer. "So the papal visit is likely to see a lot of political jostling...
...Yehuda Wilk calls "the most complicated in [Israel's] history." There are concerns about terrorist missiles (the Pope, atypically, will travel in a Blackhawk helicopter, a small target) and about the itinerary's effect on his health ("at the limit of what's prudent," says a veteran of 60 papal trips). And the expense: just one preparation, the hollowing of a hillside near the town of Korazim for a papal Mass, cost the Israelis $3 million...
...during Lent, when Catholics are not allowed to eat meat. The traditional corned beef and cabbage dinner was in jeopardy. Upon hearing that the archdioceses of Boston and Fall River have given special dispensation to their parishioners to partake in the day's feast, Bush pledged to secure a papal blessing for all American Catholics to eat their corned beef this Friday. The Pope was unavailable for comment on this proposal. In response, Al Gore had this to say: "Though I am not Catholic, as a United States Senator I played a critical role in establishing the Lenten dietary guidelines...
...there has been no voluntary papal abdication since Celestine V in 1294. And while Celestine was later canonized, Dante placed him in the Inferno for il gran rifiuto (the great refusal), albeit only in the first circle of Hell: Limbo. Other pontiffs have been removed by murder, martyrdom, military intervention or rare coups by the College of Cardinals during pagan rule, the confusion of the Dark Ages, Byzantine meddling, populist revolutions or chronic political impotence. But what would happen if one of the most significant successors of St. Peter in the past 100 years were to give up his throne...