Wednesday, June 06, 2012 10:31:12 PM
A beauty ..
"Sister Margaret Farley — a 77-year-old professor emeritus at Yale’s Divinity School, a past
president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and an award-winning scholar"
and 'a beast' ..
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Pope Benedict XVI
Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press
Updated: May 29, 2012
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected the Roman Catholic Church’s 265th pope on April 19, 2005, after the death of the popular and long-serving Pope John Paul II. Cardinal Ratzinger took the name Benedict XVI.
Before his elevation, Benedict had led the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a key Vatican office, in which he was seen as a tough enforcer of John Paul’s conservative views.
Many Vatican experts predicted that Benedict, a German-born, bookish scholar with a strong theological bent, would not inspire the same sort of public adoration as his predecessor. But few could have predicted that his papacy would be characterized by a series of scandals and controversies that have alienated so many people, including Catholics.
The church’s long-running sexual abuse scandal flared up with new rounds of accusations, and has threatened to define Benedict’s papacy. He has faced accusations that he and direct subordinates often did not alert civilian authorities or discipline priests involved in sexual abuse when he served as archbishop in Germany and as the Vatican’s chief doctrinal enforcer.
In 2006, Benedict enraged many Muslims, when he quoted a Byzantine emperor who called Islam “evil and inhuman,’' and in 2009 he sparked outrage across Europe when he revoked the excommunication of schismatic bishops who had denied central elements of the Holocaust.
Benedict’s visit to Germany in September 2011 encapsulated much of the turmoil that has defined his papacy. Instead of a pleasant visit to his native land, the trip became a journey to the front lines in the battle over the future of the church. The pope addressed members of Germany’s parliament while thousands of demonstrators aired a wide array of criticisms of the church and Benedict on subjects that included the role of women in the church, gay rights and sexual abuse by priests.
Of all European countries, Ireland has undergone perhaps the most profound transformation in its relationship to the church, an institution that permeated almost every aspect of life there for generations. In 2011, Irish prime minister Enda Kenny unexpectedly took the floor in Parliament to express his outrage over the revelations in the Cloyne Report, which detailed abuse and cover-ups by church officials in Ireland through 2009. The Vatican withdrew its ambassador from Dublin, and the Irish government announced that it would introduce a package of legislation to protect children.
One More Crisis: A Scandal Involving the Pope’s Butler
In May 2012, a scandal called VatiLeaks burst into the open when Paolo Gabriele, 46, the pope’s butler, was arrested on suspicion of leaking secret documents, some of which were addressed to the pope. Some of the documents that Mr. Gabriele is suspected of leaking claim cronyism and corruption in Vatican contracts.
many links and more .. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/benedict_xvi/index.html
"Sister Margaret Farley — a 77-year-old professor emeritus at Yale’s Divinity School, a past
president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and an award-winning scholar"
and 'a beast' ..
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Pope Benedict XVI
Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press
Updated: May 29, 2012
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected the Roman Catholic Church’s 265th pope on April 19, 2005, after the death of the popular and long-serving Pope John Paul II. Cardinal Ratzinger took the name Benedict XVI.
Before his elevation, Benedict had led the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a key Vatican office, in which he was seen as a tough enforcer of John Paul’s conservative views.
Many Vatican experts predicted that Benedict, a German-born, bookish scholar with a strong theological bent, would not inspire the same sort of public adoration as his predecessor. But few could have predicted that his papacy would be characterized by a series of scandals and controversies that have alienated so many people, including Catholics.
The church’s long-running sexual abuse scandal flared up with new rounds of accusations, and has threatened to define Benedict’s papacy. He has faced accusations that he and direct subordinates often did not alert civilian authorities or discipline priests involved in sexual abuse when he served as archbishop in Germany and as the Vatican’s chief doctrinal enforcer.
In 2006, Benedict enraged many Muslims, when he quoted a Byzantine emperor who called Islam “evil and inhuman,’' and in 2009 he sparked outrage across Europe when he revoked the excommunication of schismatic bishops who had denied central elements of the Holocaust.
Benedict’s visit to Germany in September 2011 encapsulated much of the turmoil that has defined his papacy. Instead of a pleasant visit to his native land, the trip became a journey to the front lines in the battle over the future of the church. The pope addressed members of Germany’s parliament while thousands of demonstrators aired a wide array of criticisms of the church and Benedict on subjects that included the role of women in the church, gay rights and sexual abuse by priests.
Of all European countries, Ireland has undergone perhaps the most profound transformation in its relationship to the church, an institution that permeated almost every aspect of life there for generations. In 2011, Irish prime minister Enda Kenny unexpectedly took the floor in Parliament to express his outrage over the revelations in the Cloyne Report, which detailed abuse and cover-ups by church officials in Ireland through 2009. The Vatican withdrew its ambassador from Dublin, and the Irish government announced that it would introduce a package of legislation to protect children.
One More Crisis: A Scandal Involving the Pope’s Butler
In May 2012, a scandal called VatiLeaks burst into the open when Paolo Gabriele, 46, the pope’s butler, was arrested on suspicion of leaking secret documents, some of which were addressed to the pope. Some of the documents that Mr. Gabriele is suspected of leaking claim cronyism and corruption in Vatican contracts.
many links and more .. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/benedict_xvi/index.html
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