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...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...
...politics is echoing throughout Europe. After decades of rising secularism and declining church attendance, religion is now back on Europe's political agenda. Islamic terrorism and Turkey's hopes of entering the European Union have compelled politicians from Vienna to the Hague to declare their Christian identity; Pope Benedict XVI is making the war on secularism a defining feature of his papacy. France's presidential aspirant Nicolas Sarkozy suggested in a recent book that France might reconsider the possibility of state funding for religious institutions. The age of keeping God out of politics is over, says Jytte Klausen, a Danish...
...candidacy for European Justice Commissioner on the grounds that he had labeled homosexuality a "sin." In a secular Western Europe, Roman Catholics are now often claiming that they are victims. "In the Western world today, we are experiencing a wave of drastic new enlightenment ? of secularization," Pope Benedict XVI said recently. "It is becoming more difficult to believe." But in parts of Eastern Europe, religious politicians are pushing back, demanding that traditional beliefs be taken seriously in the political domain. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the new Polish Prime Minister from the ardently pro-Catholic Law and Justice Party, prefers Catholic pilgrimages...
During a speech in an academic setting two weeks ago, Benedict XVI said something that offended many people and made headlines around the world. By way of introducing a discourse on the tension between religion and reason, he quoted a 14th century Byzantine emperor who argued that Islam contained “evil and inhuman” elements. Muslims around the world objected to the quotation...
...week after Pope Benedict XVI crashed onto the front pages with his controversial remarks on Islam, two central questions hang over the Holy See: How did that inflammatory quote get into the speech in the first place, and how do we get him out of this fix (and off the front pages)? The answers - tied both to the Pope's old habits and recent changes in the Roman Curia bureaucracy - are key to helping Catholicism's communicator-in-chief manage his message more smoothly and prevent another PR disaster like this one from happening again...