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...Curia was initially shocked at the choice. "He's not at all the darling of the right," he said. But Vatican sources say the appointment was a sign of the trust and respect Benedict has for the American prelate, whom he has known since Levada served under him in Rome at the Congregation in the early 1980s. "For this job," says a well-placed Vatican official, "he wanted to have someone he can rely on." With Benedict expected to remain the church's theologian in chief, Levada may be the key to putting the Pope's ideas into practice...
With the graduation of collegiate Sailor of the Year E. Cardwell Potts IV ’04 last spring and Porter’s semester-long absence in Rome, Johnson rose to skipper the A-division in fleet racing—and, at the helm of a Laser, to take second in the singlehanded national championships...
...Curia was initially shocked at the choice. "He's not at all the darling of the right," he said. But Vatican sources say the appointment was a sign of the trust and respect Benedict has for the American prelate, whom he has known since Levada served under him in Rome at the Congregation in the early 1980s. "For this job," says a well-placed Vatican official, "he wanted to have someone he can rely on." With Benedict expected to remain the church's theologian in chief, Levada may be the key to putting the Pope's ideas into practice...
...split from the Catholic Church and go their own way. When will a new generation of Catholics refuse to tolerate the frustration they feel about church dogma that they do not follow anyway? Can they find a new Martin Luther to break with the power-hungry old men in Rome? In a new church in synch with current values, vacant pulpits could be filled by married men and by women. The "cafeteria Catholics," who choose among the church teachings they wish to follow and whom the Pope disdains, would return to their pews on Sundays. Enlightened views on contraception, stem...
...DIED. EDWARD VON KLOBERG, 63, defiant Washington lobbyist who, espousing the motto "Shame is for sissies," specialized in improving the public image of despots; of an apparent suicide; in Rome. Always flamboyant?he added the "Von" to his name and regularly appeared at formal events in a black cape?his clients included Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu, Laurent Kabila of Congo and Saddam Hussein...