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The Pope and the Vatican | TWO POPES, 15 RED HATS Robert Mickens 24/03/2006 The installation this week of 15 new cardinals reveals the thinking of Pope Benedict XVI and the legacy of his predecessor, John Paul II. In this article, written in February on the day the Pope announced the consistory, our Rome correspondent analyses the selection. | CHALLENGE OF THE LORD’S VINEYARD CELEBRATION is the right response to the election of a new Pope. Brass bands played in St Peter’s Square as the bells rang out on Tuesday, and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor has described how champagne corks popped at the cardinals’ final dinner...
GLOBAL WELCOME FOR POPE BENEDICT XVI Pope Benedict XVI was elected without debate between "progressives" and "conservatives", a conclave insider revealed this week... | GAMEKEEPER TURNED PASTOR As the Church’s keeper of doctrinal correctness for more than a quarter of a century, he was the enforcer to John Paul II’s communicator. Now he is Pope how will Benedict XVI face up to his fragmented flock?
24-HOUR CONCLAVE ELECTS RATZINGER ONE OF the fastest conclaves in recent history this week resulted in the election as Pope of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the German theologian who has been the Vatican's doctrinal enforcer for the past 23 years. He has taken the name Pope Benedict XVI. | CARDINAL PARADOX 18/09/2004 At a time of an ailing Pope, the voice of Joseph Ratzinger is increasingly heard as that of the Vatican. And yet, the Church’s enforcer is also a singular freethinker. From American politicians, to women, and Turkey, his views have dominated the headli 'Aggressive secularism' threat to freedom, says Ratzinger 27/11/2004 God is being pushed to the margins of society, thwarted by an "aggressive secular ideology", according to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. nes this year. |  | The Grand Inquisitor of the modern Church Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger: the Vatican's enforcer of the faith 03/02/2001 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is a prodigy. A man of outstanding and subtle intelligence, a scholar trained in the highest standards of a German university...The Tablet Book review
Vital dissent Lavinia Byrne 16/04/2005 John Paul II’s papacy was marked by moves to silence critics. But it is crucial for the health of the Church for a new pope to tolerate argument and debate . Read article | OBITUARY ISSUE These are historic days in the life of the Church and The Tablet reflects this with a special obituary issue dedicated to Pope John Paul II. This is an issue to buy and keep.
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