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Just weeks into his tenure, Pope Benedict XVI already has a fight on his hands. Last week, the lower house of Spain's parliament approved the first reading of a measure to legalize same-sex marriages. The bill, sponsored by the ruling Socialist party and almost certain to become law in time for Gay Pride day in June, has infuriated Spain's Catholic leaders. Ricard María Cardinal Carles, Emeritus Archbishop of Barcelona, who supports the church's prohibition of homosexuality, says that "to obey the law over conscience takes us back to Auschwitz." Conservative mayors say they will...
With his formal installation in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI took his place as the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics. His young reign, however, has already shown embryonic symptoms of a perennial papal predisposition—the urge to involve the church in the temporal affairs of sovereign states...
...would have thought his advanced age and unstable health would have been reason enough for the Cardinals to pick someone else." FATHER GEORG RATZINGER, brother of Benedict XVI, on the College of Cardinals' choice of his younger sibling as Pope...
Regardless of your beliefs, it is clear that Pope Benedict XVI will serve a dual role of unequaled importance and exposure; he will be both the spiritual leader of over a billion Catholics and a political figure on the world stage. His election will have important repercussions for Catholics and non-Catholics worldwide, but it is critical to distinguish between Benedict’s two very distinct roles...
...Benedict XVI feels that he and John Paul II were involved in a battle for the duration of the previous papacy, and the battle continues. They were on crisis footing when he came in, and they continue to be on crisis footing. He sees the society surrounding the church in the West, and elsewhere, has having become worse, in the sense of making it harder to be a good Catholic and a comfortable member of society at large. And in this ongoing crisis, he appears to be willing to make the Church a minority clearly defined by its strong values...