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A papal watch list: do Benedict's words signal a new, more dynamic and open Catholic church or, like the blossoms, the flashy onset of still another predictable season?

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 06-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A papal watch list: do Benedict's words signal a new, more dynamic and open Catholic church or, like the blossoms, the flashy onset of still another predictable season?(VIEWPOINT)

Article Excerpt
As I rode to the airport after spending three weeks in Rome, the brilliant purple flowers of the Japanese cherry trees were blazing in their full spring glory. Three weeks before, there was nothing. Brown, naked branches. When I came, a pope had just died; I leave as his successor has just begun his reign. That successor, who appeared unbending as the Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who unequivocally railed against relativism and extolled fundamentalism as the conclave began, became the Benedict XVI who at his installation Mass proclaimed humbly that he would "listen, together with the whole church, to the word and will of the Lord."

This dramatic transformation of a...

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