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...Rome of all the American Cardinals in April 2002 to address the abuse scandal, but was believed to have been largely shielded in his later years from the worst details. His successor has taken a tougher line, and indeed just months before he was elected to be Pope Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger wrote of the "filth" of the Church in apparent reference to the sex scandals. Among the boldest administrative moves of Benedict since his 2005 election was the disciplining last year of Mexico's Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, the 86-year-old founder of the conservative Legionaries...
After months of intense speculation, Pope Benedict XVI has eased restrictions on the Catholic Church's traditional Latin Mass - a move that could raise controversy both within the Church, and in its interfaith relations, given the fact that the old rites include a Good Friday prayer for the conversion of Jews...
...Catholic Church has never been a model of candor or transparency. Compare it to the Chinese government, however, and the Vatican can start to look downright forthcoming. In what may be Rome's strongest public push to normalize relations with China, Pope Benedict XVI has sent a 55-page open letter to Chinese Catholics that essentially lays all the Vatican's diplomatic cards on the table. The initial response from Beijing, meanwhile, has been terse and predictably cryptic...
...Sometimes I'm not poetic enough to describe what it's like to be in the presence of the Holy Father. It is a moving experience.' PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, before meeting Pope Benedict XVI for the first time...
...Meant to Say..." How to Lobby the Pope No Love Affair for the Pope in Brazil Benedict and Brazil's Catholic Leftists Pope Rejects Pro-Choice Politicians Behind Brazil's Catholic Resurgence Vatican Fires Back at Critics A Step Backward for Pope Benedict? Special TIME 100: Pope Benedict XVI Photoessay Habemus Papam Though the agenda at their Vatican meeting - from Iraq to debt relief to abortion - featured points that both converge and diverge, the 35 minutes behind closed doors, which Bush called "a moving experience," was above all a meeting of two men of Christian devotion, says a Catholic Church...