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Given this popularity, it should come as no surprise that the College of Cardinals elected as pope the man more instrumental than any other in helping John Paul II shape his papacy: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who chose the name Benedict. Benedict, the sixteenth pope to take that name, had for over twenty years the final word on doctrinal issues, and he was the last to be consulted before John Paul II made decisions of any consequence. Benedict himself wrote a great deal of the clarifications and philosophical defenses of Orthodox Catholic belief. He is a theologian as highly regarded...
Willig learned this lesson the hard way, at a 1998 screening of Elizabeth—in which Cate Blanchett’s turn as the titular queen was briefly supplemented by a cameo appearance by Marie De Guise, the sixteenth-century Scottish monarch who happened to be the subject of her senior thesis...
Boisterous and serene, traditional and modern, humorous and meditative: Ghungroo 2005 was all of the above, and is definable by their seeming contradiction as well as their interconnectedness. The South Asian Association’s sixteenth annual cultural festival, which took place last week, was a vibrant celebration of both diversity and unification...
...this case, at least, the clothes aren’t everything. De la Durantaye’s youthful face and blithe reputation belie a deep academic seriousness. True, he referenced the White Stripes in a recent Village Voice essay. But he also quoted Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, and the sixteenth century Chinese artist Ding Yunpeng...
Though de la Durantaye is often rumored to be of mysterious European origins, he actually hails from East Lansing, Mich., where his family has lived since the sixteenth century. His Midwest rearing was not as parochial, however, as it may sound...