Word: pontiff
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...land in one fell swoop, launching desired changes internally while minimizing the duration of the public reverberations. Instead, the new "instruction" from the Congregation for Catholic Education has remained in the news for weeks, with flip-flopping interpretations that managed neither to limit criticism nor to clearly articulate the pontiff's purpose. And that, despite some optimistic interpretations by progressive Catholics, seems to be to sound a loud "No" to new gays entering the priesthood, with the caveat that defining who is a homosexual is not always a simple task...
...Paul II's papacy, the Vatican could still keep a secret. Trusted insiders like the Pope's personal secretary Mons. Stanislaw Dziwisz and his press spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls (as well as several key Cardinals) did remarkably well at keeping the Curia speaking with one voice even as the pontiff grew ever weaker...
...Thomas Kretschmann) is starchy and principled, more a paragon than a person. CBS's mini-series presents a soft-focus, avuncular Wojtyla, dividing the role in two: the young priest (Cary Elwes) is a jocular guy who talks sex (within marriage, don't worry) with his young parishioners; the Pontiff (Jon Voight) is a self-deprecating wit whose career is unified by a belief in the dignity of life...
...Youth Day in Cologne. "Only from God does true revolution come," the Pope told a Saturday night prayer vigil. "It's not ideologies that save the world, but a return to the living God." But Benedict's first trip abroad was also a reminder that the 78-year-old Pontiff is a novice as a foreign leader. His visit to a Cologne synagogue on Friday came less than a month after a diplomatic spat erupted with Israel, which had lashed out at Benedict for not including the Jewish state in a list of countries recently hit by terrorism. Issues...
...also plenty who seem to simply gravitate toward the physical presence of their Holy Father-some running in the direction of the faraway stage, others walking in a head-up, open-mouth trance. Whether he likes it or not, Pope Benedict XVI is a star. He the first pontiff elected in the full throes of the information age, and his predecessor's sense of spectacle consecrated a natural marriage between this ancient office and the modern media...