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...defining political issue of the day. But Benedict XVI has assumed the papacy at a moment where the Cold War has been replaced by the challenge of Islamic extremism - an issue very much on his mind even when he was a leading official in John Paul II's Vatican...
...desire for inter-faith dialogue, urging that it be extended to a permanent forum to discuss issues such as poverty, globalization, the loss of values, racism and terrorism. The fact that the Pope made no mention of the other issues and only wanted to discuss terrorism suggests that the Vatican may be toughening its line...
...hours before Pope Benedict XVI would take his historic step into the Cologne synagogue, and reporters were not impressed with what the Pope planned to say. Reading from the prepared text of Benedict's speech, a Vatican-based German correspondent pointed out what the speech didn't say. Sure, there was a no-holds-barred denunciation of what happened in Germany during World War II, which Benedict called "an insane racist ideology, born of neo-paganism...the attempt, planned and systematically carried out by the regime, to exterminate European Jewry." But where was a more explicit reference to the role...
...inspire. As a colleague who accompanied John Paul on his own first homecoming after his election, remarked yesterday: "Wojtyla was much more the Polish Pope than Ratzinger is a German Pope." John Paul was also of course a globetrotter. And perhaps after more than 20 years as a top Vatican official-and 24 hours of his first foreign trip-Benedict seems destined to be very much a Roman Pope...
...globe's young Catholics every few years for prayer, teachings and music. Providence would beckon when he closed his last World Youth Day in Toronto in 2002 by announcing that the next edition would be here in Cologne. That meant that three years later and four months after the Vatican's German-born doctrinal chief Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was elected Pope, the first WYD without John Paul would turn into a homecoming for his successor. And Benedict seemed genuinely moved by his arrival on a warm, sunny day, carrying a beaming smile throughout a series of encounters with local authorities...