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...pope's agenda is divided into things spiritual and temporal and, like any world leader, into things domestic and foreign. Pope Benedict XVI has 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...
...carefully chosen words were credited by many as opening the first crack in the edifice of communism. John Paul's deft diplomacy and his experience of life behind the Iron Curtain made the Polish pontiff uniquely placed to tackle the defining political issue of the day. But Benedict XVI has assumed the papacy at a moment where the Cold War has been replaced by the challenge of Islamic extremism - an issue very much on his mind even when he was a leading official in John Paul II's Vatican...
...hours before Pope Benedict XVI would take his historic step into the Cologne synagogue, and reporters were not impressed with what the Pope planned to say. Reading from the prepared text of Benedict's speech, a Vatican-based German correspondent pointed out what the speech didn't say. Sure, there was a no-holds-barred denunciation of what happened in Germany during World War II, which Benedict called "an insane racist ideology, born of neo-paganism...the attempt, planned and systematically carried out by the regime, to exterminate European Jewry." But where was a more explicit reference to the role...
...Benedict XVI's maiden papal voyage began today with cheering pilgrims and a retinue of reporters and bishops and bodyguards following his every step. Looming over the German pontiff's emotional homecoming, though, is Pope John Paul II and his imposing legacy of global outreach. John Paul not only racked up the miles-104 foreign trips during his 26-year papacy-he also had a natural gift for leaving both spiritual and political footprints almost anywhere he touched down (and kissed the ground): subtly undermining the Communist regime with emotional sermons in his native Poland; challenging breakaway priests of Latin...
...questions even though Benedict appeared ready to take more. But there are certain decisions that only the Holy Father can make. And so two hours later, as he stepped briskly down the stairs toward the airport tarmac, the next question was about to be answered. No, Pope Benedict XVI did not kiss the ground...