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...shown himself sure-footed on the home front, with clear ideas for streamlining the Vatican hierarchy and affirming traditional doctrine among the faithful. The former German theology professor was on pretty familiar turf last week when preaching to hundreds of thousands of young Roman Catholics gathered for World Youth Day in Cologne. "Only from God does true revolution come," the Pope told a Saturday night prayer vigil. "It's not ideologies that save the world, but a return to the living God." But Benedict's first trip abroad was also a reminder that the 78-year-old Pontiff...
...wants the youth of America and the world sashaying around in garish sequined costumes, hair dripping with pomade, body shot full of female hormones to prevent voice change, mono-gloved, well, then I suppose 'Michael,' as he is affectionately known in the trade, is in fact a good example...
...After that, the couple had a last walk through the rooms. They then went with the soldiers to the center of the village and asked the troops to let them enter the youth club that was built in the memory of Yochanan. "One of the soldiers, an Air Force pilot, accompanied us," says Bryna. She told him that she hopes that he will be able to live with himself after what he has done that...
...exterminate European Jewry." But where was a more explicit reference to the role of German Catholics in allowing the Nazi deportation of millions of Jews? And where was some reference to the German Pope's own experience? After all, the teenage Joseph Ratzinger was drafted into the Hitler Youth in his native Bavaria, against his will and the wishes of his own anti-Nazi policeman father. Or why not mention what he, as a young German priest, thought when the full extent of Hitler's crimes came to light? Still, my colleague would reserve final judgment until the noon ceremony...
...recounted Nazi atrocities, and the utter silence in the synagogue to hear his every breath. It was, in other words, in the German Pope's very presence, which was his own initiative as soon as his trip was scheduled to come to Cologne for the Catholic World Youth day. The synogogue's standing ovation for Benedict was confirmation that German Jews appreciated the gesture...