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...arrives on U.S. soil on April 15, we in the press will no doubt be parsing Benedict's every sentence for his opinions on U.S. policy or remonstrance of American morals. But the most important waves emanating from this contact may reverberate well beyond tomorrow's news cycle. John Paul II and the U.S. played as anticommunist co-leads on the 20th century stage. This Pope, more a student of global drama than an eager protagonist, knows that rising religious conflict may be the 21st century's great challenge. He also appears to sense that American power alone...
...Pope's admiration for the U.S. has deep roots. Unlike John Paul II, who was intellectually and theologically fully formed when he met his first Americans, Ratzinger first observed them when he was 18. As a defeated German soldier, he spent three months in a pow camp but was then allowed to return home and witness one of the great modern acts of charity, the rebuilding of Germany by an occupying force that could just as easily have exacted revenge. Cardinal William Levada, the Californian whom Benedict tapped as his successor at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...
...hardly the first: John Paul II described faith and reason as the twin wings that lift the church. And yet a balanced takeoff has remained elusive. The U.S. is one of the few places where it seems to happen regularly. "America is simultaneously a completely modern and a profoundly religious place. In the world, it is 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...
...follow than the “Sweetest Girl” clip, which (sort of) told the story of a girl in a refugee camp who Wyclef wants to rescue from inexplicable but imminent deportation. My only beef with the “Fast Car” video is that Paul Simon, featured on this track, is completely MIA. Part of the appeal of big-name collaborations is seeing both artists performing side-by-side, and while it’s true that Simon doesn’t add all that much to the song, it would be nice...
...image as a violent pirate. “We find it funny … that’s why we raise the Jolly Roger on our vessels,” he told me yesterday, while comparing himself with former pirates Henry Morgan, Sir Walter Raleigh and John Paul Jones...