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...many Catholics. "Many Catholics in Germany had hoped that the Pope would have expressed a word of personal sympathy for the victims of abuse," says Christian Weisner, spokesman for the well-known Catholic reform group We Are Church. Papal officials, however, defend Benedict's silence. "The Pope was not part of what happened back then, and he shouldn't be part of it now," says a Vatican insider. Indeed, the Vatican has mounted an aggressive campaign to portray the scandals as an attempt to besmirch the Pope and discredit the church as a whole. "Over recent days some people have...
...priesthood. One perennial proposal dusted off in recent weeks is the abolition of celibacy among priests: commentators in Germany and Italy have suggested it may help prevent abuse. Vienna's Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has called for a thoroughgoing review of the causes of abuse, writing, "Part of it is the question of celibacy." That sort of questioning is now taking place even in Benedict's former archdiocese. "Married priests should be accepted in the Catholic Church," says Rainer Schiessler, a priest at Munich's St. Maximilian Church. (See 10 surprising facts about the world's oldest Bible...
...President Obama struggles to pass healthcare reform in the U.S., Europe has worked hard to make health insurance part of "the basic social contract." The human-rights vision of the Council of Europe has also led to the abolition of the death penalty in all 47 member states. It has created monitoring mechanisms, such as our Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhumane or Degrading Treatment. Members of this committee regularly visit prisons or places of detention in all member states to check if governments are ill-treating prisoners or detainees. The Council of Europe campaigns to fight other...
...quote a senior Asian official in your article: "they talk to each other endlessly," and, "they are very clubby." To be honest, worse things can be said about a union between nations that had been at war with each other for the better part of two millennia. All in all, I am happy that the E.U. is beautifully diverse and relatively humble. (Read: "The Incredible Shrinking Europe...
Djibouti takes place in East Africa, for the most part, and has an array of characters. There's a guy who's a billionaire, and he's giving this girl he likes--she's a runway model--a test. If she can go around the world with him on his yacht and not throw up or become bored, he may marry her. They're characters...