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...with this record; there are at least 15 major collaborations. Who were you most excited to work with? Everyone. I had a wish list of people I wanted to work with and it actually came true. With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else. That did not happen to me on this album. Every person I wanted came through and delivered...
...sees as having played a heroic anti-Nazi role. (History is far more ambiguous, although institutional Catholicism acquitted itself better than Protestantism.) As Catholicism's longtime philosophical enforcer, he holds even more fiercely than did John Paul to the belief that the church as a holy entity is perfect. He is less eager to critique the acts of its followers, especially since he may feel any admission of weakness could undermine his battle against European secularism...
...salvation that has little to learn from other traditions. But Benedict sometimes seems nostalgic for the old understanding. In 2006, for instance, he preached that in choosing 12 Apostles, Jesus was summoning the 12 tribes of Israel to be "reunited in a new covenant [Christianity], the full and perfect accomplishment of the old." There are harmless ways to interpret this. But it might also help explain why Benedict refused to delete the "conversion" wording from the Latin Mass...
President Obama aptly characterized the current recession recently as one caused by a "perfect storm of irresponsibility and poor decision-making that stretched from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street." Yet the Obama phenomenon could be brewing a more perfect storm, wherein an F.D.R.-L.B.J.--style government would promote intrusions that could inflict great social, political and economic devastation on us. Daniel B. Jeffs, APPLE VALLEY, CALIF...
...publications seeking to keep their content free, the Internet has provided the perfect medium...