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Serious gamblers will bet on almost anything, and these days, thanks to the Internet, they have a wealth of choices that have nothing to do with sports. Some of the most popular wagers center around who the next Pope will be, what the next celebrity divorce will be, and whether there will ever be a female U.S. president. But each year odds players try to read the minds of a cryptically secretive, notoriously unpredictable group of people in Sweden who choose the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize...
Weigel, author of the 1999 bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, “Witness to Hope,” is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a self-described “Judeo-Christian” research institute in Washington...
Complete calm comes from complete certainty. In today's unnerving, globalizing, sometimes terrifying world, such religious certainty is a balm more in demand than ever. In the new millennium, Muslims are not alone in grasping the relief of submission to authority. The new Pope, despite his criticism of extremist religion and religious violence, represents a return to a more authoritarian form of Catholicism. In the Catholic triad of how we know truth--an eternal dialogue between papal authority, scriptural guidance and the experience of the faithful--Benedict XVI has tilted the balance decisively back toward his own unanswerable truth...
...outcry over Pope Benedict XVI's recent comments about Islam, Redeker wrote, underlined that the religion was trying to stifle "that which is most precious to the West and which doesn't exist in any Muslim country: liberty of thought and expression." He claimed that France was "more or less consciously submitting itself to the dictates of Islam" by such gestures as banning string bikinis during this summer's Paris Plage, the annual beach party in Paris; setting up times when only women can visit public pools; and allowing Muslim schoolchildren to get special food in school cafeterias...
...Bulldogs were not ready to hand over the momentum just yet. On the first play following the ensuing kick off, Yale freshmen Kevin Pope attracted a foul resulting in a free kick 20 yards in front of the Harvard goal. Despite a wall of six Crimson players, senior Alex Munns had no problem finding the back of the net from there. Quickly, Harvard found itself down by a goal once again...