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119666
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2013.
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Pope Benedict XVI made reaching out to other faiths and promoting Christian unity hallmarks of his tenure. Pope Francis will continue this work, not only because he has a history of facilitating religious dialogue, but also because global Catholicism requires it.
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176031
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This short essay responds to Kristopher Norris’s reply to my article entitled ‘The Catholic Presumption against War Revisited’. It engages with Norris’s three main points of critique.
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THE HISTORY OF MANKIND is brimming with armed conflicts and wars, the biggest and the bloodiest of them taking place in the nineteenth and especially twentieth centuries: two world wars, to say nothing of revolutions and civil wars, claimed tens of millions of lives. Tragedies continue in the twenty-first century. Many of us are convinced that we are living in the end time, the time of Apocalypses and that the dreams about perpetual peace (of which Immanuel Kant had written with a great deal of enthusiasm) were swallowed up by Lethe. The recent events - the wars in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Chechnya, Syria and elsewhere together with the "color" revolutions of all sorts and the civil war in Ukraine - are ample evidence that the hopes for universal peace are steadily shrinking.
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132147
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2014.
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Prior to Pope Francis's visit to the Holy Land, his ambassadors sought to temper expectations by reminding officials in Washington and other capitals that the pontiff himself had called it "strictly a religious trip." Its main purpose, they said, was to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the meeting in Jerusalem between Pope Paul VI and the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras-the first such encounter after a thousand years of antagonism between the two churches, Roman Catholic and Orthodox. But in a region where religion and politics are an explosive mix, every word he spoke, every step he took was going to be scrutinized for any hint of support for one side to the disadvantage of the other, and no one knew it better than Francis. But the Argentine-born pope already had a reputation for not avoiding controversial issues-and a gift for making unexpected symbolic gestures to make his point.
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137304
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A YEAR AGO, on March 13, 2013, Archbishop of Buenos Aires Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected head of the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) and, therefore, head of the Vatican city-state (officially the Holy See) as Pope Francis. These twelve months were brimming with comments on what had been done and what was expected from the new Pope. The wide range of views and opinions coming from Russia, the U.S., Western Europe, and Latin America stretch from pragmatic and realistic to extremist and radical.
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125213
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2013.
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Piled in the storeroom of a leading shoemaker in Rome are several pairs of new, red leather shoes, in different styles and various sizes and half-sizes. Among them are the shoes intended for the new Fisher of Men of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis. But the freshly minted pontiff immediately dispensed with the tradition of wearing red shoes, preferring to keep his sturdy, well-worn black cap toes. He also rejected the ermine-trimmed, elbow-length red cape worn by popes before him, buttoned down the front, and known as a mozzetta; and he kept his own iron pectoral cross in preference to the offered gold one. When the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, lately archbishop of Buenos Aires, appeared for the first time on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica on a rainy March 13th evening, he wore the white papal cassock and, speaking good Italian, told the huge crowd that the cardinals in the conclave had chosen him "from almost the end of the world."
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155366
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IN THE 21ST CENTURY, core political, social, economic, and - what is more dangerous - cultural and moral values have plunged into a systemic crisis. The claims of the West to the top civilizational status don't hold water any longer. Moreover, it is obviously losing its dominant economic positions.
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158175
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IN TODAY'S COMPLICATED and unstable international situation, a special role belongs to influential forces that cooperate with our country in trying to stop humankind from sliding toward a catastrophe.
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178739
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In September 2018, the Vatican and the People’s Republic of China reached a landmark provisional agreement, marking a new phase of relations between the two states since the severance of ties in 1951. What led to the signing of the agreement? What are its critical achievements and failures? This article argues that it was the realpolitik of Pope Francis, the first Jesuit Pope, that led the Vatican to make ‘a leap of faith’ and diverge from the two previous papacies. The most significant achievement of the agreement was arguably the establishment of a ‘China model’ in appointing bishops. However, this development has also stirred up confusion and sidestepped crucial issues such as the status of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association.
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144416
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With his focus on economic justice, Pope Francis is still riding a wave of adulation three years into his job. And perhaps it’s deserved, but as leader of the Jesuits and then as bishop and archbishop in Argentina, he failed to publicly denounce the abuses of the military junta. Jonathan Power compares the pope’s silence to the courage of Brazil’s church hierarchy, which stood up to dictatorship. Power urges the pope to explain exactly what went on and how the Argentine church erred. The pope’s admission, Powers argues, would inspire his followers to think more profoundly about moral dilemmas and, perhaps, even help them be braver in the face of evil.
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