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...actively seeking a dialogue with the oppressed in Cuba, the Chilean government will be breaking the virtuous example of the Pope, as well as the presidents of Portugal and Spain who have all recognized and met with opposition leaders in the past. Recently, there has been a deplorable wave of political suppression in Cuba. The state has continued to silence people that they have labeled “counterrevolutionary dissidents”—people that Chile and the United States would call productive citizens. When President Bachelet visited Cuba, she put Chile’s reputation at risk...

Author: By Daniel Balmori | Title: Diminished Democratic Ideals | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...them for sale in the 1500s - call it mercy for money - religious reformer Martin Luther protested. These days, they can't be bought. "How does that MasterCard ad go?" muses Sister Mary Ann Walsh, spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. "Some things are priceless." (See pictures of Pope Benedict XVI visiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Catholic Indulgences Are Making a Comeback | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...lifelong Catholic, Pelosi could not feign surprise at being called upon by the Church to use her gift for persuasion to restrict abortion legislatively, or at least not to be its advocate. But until now, the Church had not formally instructed judges in a similar fashion. As written, the Pope's statement has the potential, at least theoretically, to empty the U.S. Supreme Court of all five of its Catholic jurists and perhaps all other Catholics who sit on the bench in the lower federal and state courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catholic Judges and Abortion: Did the Pope Set New Rules? | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...pictures of Pope Benedict XVI's fashion looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catholic Judges and Abortion: Did the Pope Set New Rules? | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...course, quite possible that the Holy Father was not intending to impose a new moral duty on Catholic jurists at all, and that in the rush of the event, someone in the Vatican press office mistakenly included the judicial terminology. But taken at its word, the Pope's new admonition to "jurists" to undertake an activist, law-changing role suggests that the concept of Originalism (adhering to the textual meaning of laws at the time of adoption) subscribed to by Scalia and often by three of the four other Catholics on the Supreme Court (Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catholic Judges and Abortion: Did the Pope Set New Rules? | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

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