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Douglas A. Sylva
This essay is the fifth entry in a week-long symposium on the popes recent encyclical.
As observers continue to decipher the meaning of Benedict XVIs latest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, all appear to agree that the passage of note, the passage that may prove historic in its implications, is the one that is already becoming known as the world political authority paragraph … Continue Reading »
Pope Benedicts address to the U.N. General Assembly possessed no obvious and immediate Regensburg passage, no startling phrase to shake observers from comfortable assumptions and to foster debate about the institution. This was all the more troubling for those who know—and who know that . . . . Continue Reading »
The pope has John Allen worried. In a column published in the New York Times , Allen, senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter , frets that Pope Benedict will offend during his upcoming address to the United Nations General Assembly. After all, this cerebral pope has a track . . . . Continue Reading »
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