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...Pope's agenda?and how it will affect the faithful?is still very much a matter of debate. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted by TNS, we asked residents of Asia's two most Christian nations, the Philippines and South Korea, for their views on the Pontiff and how his policies might affect the region...
Readers responded to our stories on the new Pontiff with celebration? as well as disillusionment. Conservative Catholics rejoiced; progressives lamented that a reformist papacy would have to wait...
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Inside the Mind of the Pope Readers responded to our stories on the new Pontiff, some with celebration, some with disillusionment. Conservative Catholics rejoiced in the selection of a man known as John Paul II's strong right hand. Progressives expressed a feeling that any hope for a reformist papacy will have to wait Time's cover stories on the election of Pope Benedict XVI and about his religious philosophy were excellent [May 2]. I believe he was chosen by the Holy Spirit. It's fine to talk of worldly politics, but in the end the Pope, Christ's vicar...
When he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI was known as the hard-line enforcer of church doctrine for John Paul II. But the man the new Pontiff has just named to fill his old job, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is harder to pin down. San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada is, for one thing, the first American ever to reach such an influential position in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. A native of Long Beach, Calif., who headed the diocese in Portland, Ore., before moving to San Francisco in 1995, he is known...