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...small meadow to greet about 8,000 believers. Pope Benedict XVI, officially on a summer "retreat," waves his two-handed wave, sits graciously through a local bishop's introduction and speaks. With three months' practice at this, he no longer steps on applause lines, such as references to his predecessor and a much anticipated trip to Germany. His initial remarks are energetic, though his expression while reciting the Ave Maria prayer remains more stoic than rapturous. He implores God to stay the hand of terrorists and convert their hearts, and he intones the Angelus honoring the Incarnation. And then, after...
...Vatican's Paolo VI auditorium on April 23. But he was ill at ease, and the ever vigilant Italian scribes noted that the hemline of his robes was cut far too high, offering an unusually revealing look at his ruby papal slippers. It was the kind of gaffe his predecessor, as a former actor, would have been unlikely to commit...
...acknowledged that a Pope is not an "oracle" and "is infallible only in rare situations--"a truism, but fresh, given what critics called the papal triumphalism of his predecessor. Benedict also challenged a phenomenon in which John Paul often reveled--the explosion of priestly vocations in the developing world, which the new Pope said sometimes owes less to faith than to seminarians' quest for material gain and "social promotion" in their villages. If the global south is the church's future, he apparently plans...
...Would I be off track if I guessed that Mona Hodges, the celebrity editor, was inspired by your predecessor at Cosmo, Bonnie Fuller, who left to go to Us magazine...
...resignation marks the departure of the only known dissenter on the Corporation. In a four-year period of unprecedented turnover, the board has grown ever more friendly to Summers with additions such as Robert E. Rubin ’60, Summers’ close friend and predecessor as secretary of the Treasury...