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That was 1979 and Pope John Paul II. But when Benedict XVI travels to Turkey next week on his first visit to a Muslim country since becoming Pope last year, he is unlikely to cloak himself in a downy banner of brotherhood, the way his predecessor did 27 years ago. Instead, Benedict, 79, will arrive carrying a different reputation: that of a hard-knuckle intellect with a taste for blunt talk and interreligious confrontation. Just 19 months into his tenure, the Pope has become as much a moral lightning rod as a theologian; suddenly, when he speaks, the whole world...
...Pontiff was expected to sustain John Paul's conservative line on morality and church discipline and focus most of his energies on trimming the Vatican bureaucracy and battling Western culture's "moral relativism." Although acknowledged as a brilliant conservative theologian, Benedict lacked the open-armed charisma of his predecessor. Moreover, what had initially propelled John Paul to the center of the world stage was his challenge to communism and its subsequent fall, a huge geopolitical event that the Pope helped precipitate with two exhilarating visits to his beloved Polish homeland. By contrast, what could Benedict do? Liberate Bavaria...
...Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus Directed by Steven Shainberg Picturehouse 1.5 Stars Move over, Martha Stewart—exotic is the new plain, and weird is the new normal. Unfortunately, each is proving that it can be just as boring as its predecessor. “Taking the center from the margins” seems to be the raison d’être of several of the best films produced in culture-war-America over the past year, from the spectacular “Brokeback Mountain” to the delightful “Little Miss Sunshine...
...arts at least,” he said.In fact, he said that one of his biggest successes, the Oscar-nominated screenplay for 2005’s “Before Sunset,” was a major risk—he had already scored an indie hit with its predecessor, 1995’s “Before Sunrise,” and he could have alienated its fans.“No one was anticipating or necessarily looking forward to or wanting a sequel,” he recalled. “We did that on our own; we?...
...perceived failure overseas?” Current Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert, in National Review Online last week, asked, “Do we really want Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco values leading the culture war?” Hastert’s predecessor, Newt Gingrich, echoed him, asking in a Republican National Committee letter, “Will everything you’ve worked so hard to accomplish be lost to the San Francisco values of would-be Speaker Nancy Pelosi...