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...wake of John Paul?s poignant twilight, his successor and friend Pope Benedict XVI was largely granted a honeymoon from public criticism in the first year of his papacy. That of course ended abruptly with reaction from Muslims and non-Muslims alike to his provocative September speech in Germany about faith and reason, though even that died down with his well-received visit to Turkey in November. But over the past few months back in Rome, there has been a steady flow of criticism of the now 80-year-old pontiff, much of which also relates to his rigid views...
...years into his papacy, Benedict XVI may be about to reclaim his reputation as a no-holds-barred traditionalist. Thanks to Benedict's thoughtful manner, Church progressives had believed that the man who was once the hard-line Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger would cut some slack on areas of doctrinal contention - using his intellectual heft and traditional credentials as necessary cover. But as Benedict turns 80 on April 16 and marks two years as Pope on April 19, the once hopeful progressives have all but given up their fantasy of Benedict the Reformer...
...Nothing positive comes from Iraq, torn apart by continual slaughter as the civil population flees.' POPE BENEDICT XVI, in his Easter Sunday address at the Vatican, in which the Pontiff included the Iraq war in a list of human tragedies in the world, also making note of other conflict zones such as Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Darfur and Afghanistan
ROAD TO SAINTHOOD Doctors and theologians will sift through the evidence. If they think the sister's cure was supernatural, Pope Benedict XVI, a vocal advocate for John Paul's canonization, will make the final call...
POPE BENEDICT XVI, warning that Europe appears to be losing faith in its future, calling some Europeans' desire to have fewer children "dangerous individualism...