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Curial Cardinals have tremendous sway in Rome, where their diocese-running brethren are usually only visitors. But diocesan Cardinals will make up the vast preponderance of the electors. That (along with several other factors) is why many Roman sources tout the chances of Ratzinger, a master of the Curial as well as the doctrinal universe, but why non-Romans see him as a potential kingmaker but never the king...
History 20a, Western Intellectual History: Greco-Roman Antiquity. I know what you’re thinking; I didn’t expect ancient philosophy had any bearing on contemporary history before I took the course either. But the ideas of Plato and Aristotle still loom large in the Western intellectual tradition. You can’t really understand anything from the categorical imperative to the Council of Trent without knowing Plato and Aristotle. Besides, this class is great for cocktail parties, as long as you don’t mind being that guy who quotes both Epicurus and Zeno...
...pleasure to learn that Protestant faiths are changing their mind about the Virgin Mary. She is, indeed, the Mother of God. Though Mary is honored by God, she is not a goddess, and Roman Catholicism, to which I belong, does not worship Mary as a divine person. Catholics revere Mary the same as they love an elder, affectionate and powerful sister, and that is enough to give them happiness. Jacques Euzeby Marcy l'Etoile, France It was wonderful to see Mary on TIME's cover. She is humanity's greatest friend and intercessor but never takes or shares the place...
Perfect body notwithstanding, Carol joined me in having major body-image issues. It was she who introduced me to bingeing and purging, what we now know as bulimia. She said the idea came to her in a class on the history of the Roman Empire. She read that the Romans would gorge themselves on food during orgiastic feasts and then put their fingers down their throats to make themselves throw it all back up and start over again. The idea of being able to eat the most fattening foods and never having to pay the consequences was very appealing...
Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies at the Harvard Divinity School Francis S. Fiorenza said John Paul II will most be remembered for being a ubiquitous figure in the public sphere...