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Exactly one year ago, the Vatican press corps set out from Rome on a papal trip that wasn't expected to produce major headlines. Yes, Pope Benedict XVI was visiting his native Bavaria on the Sept. 9-14 voyage, and there would be photo opportunities from his small riverside hometown and the university where he'd once taught theology. We now know, of course, that his Sept. 12, 2006, visit to his old teaching haunt, the University of Regensberg, would become the stage for the most significant moment of Benedict's papacy thus far. The provocative lecture about faith...
...following momentous visits to Turkey and Brazil, the 80-year-old Pope begins a three-day September swing that looks similar - on paper - to his low-key itinerary back a year ago. He hopped back just across the Alps on Friday, this time for three days in Austria, which sits just on the border of his native Bavaria. He will again deliver a series of speeches in German, including an address Friday evening to a gathering of international diplomats in Vienna that touched on some hot-button issues facing world leaders. Speaking with a slightly hoarse voice, the Pope delivered...
...shrine of Mariazell, could indeed include surprises. When he's on the road, Benedict often explores delicate themes with the full force of both his intellect and his sure-fire faith, which has gotten him into hot water not only in Regensberg. On his last trip to Brazil, the Pope was making big news before even landing by telling reporters on the Rome-to-Sao Paulo flight that pro-choice politicians were automatically excommunicated. Later, he would speak about the Church's role in colonizing Latin America, without mentioning the history of forced conversions and other violence by Catholics against...
...case in point. One poll ahead of Benedict's trip tallied 82% of Austrians who said the visit was of little importance to them. Imploring Europeans to remember the continent's "Christian roots" and to take up the Church's battle against abortion and assisted suicide, the Pope warned against a "degeneration of tolerance into an indifference with no reference to permanent values...
...Neuner in 1961. By the 1980s the chain included figures such as Bishop William Curlin of Charlotte, N.C. For these confessors, she developed a kind of shorthand of pain, referring almost casually to "my darkness" and to Jesus as "the Absent One." There was one respite. In October 1958, Pope Pius XII died, and requiem Masses were celebrated around the Catholic world. Teresa prayed to the deceased Pope for a "proof that God is pleased with the Society." And "then and there," she rejoiced, "disappeared the long darkness ... that strange suffering of 10 years." Unfortunately, five weeks later she reported...