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History
The long-term look at this papacy
Michael Cook | 20 April 2010
Over at Catholic World Report, a few notables have tried to evaluate Benedict XVI’s papacy. Have these been five years of disaster? Not at all. In fact, despite the bad press, they have been five very fruitful years for the Catholic Church. Here are some excerpts. Check out the whole round-table here.
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abuse,
abuse crisis,
abuse statistics,
Andrew Sullivan,
AP,
apologies,
arrest the Pope,
atheists,
Austria,
Belgium,
Benedict XVI,
Bishop Pierre Pican,
Bishop Walter Mixa,
Bishop William Lori,
bishops,
book reviews,
Boston Archdiocese,
Boy Scouts,
Brendan O'Neill,
campaign,
Canada,
canon law,
Cardinal Angelo Sodano,
Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos,
Cardinal Hans Groer,
Cardinal Newman,
Cardinal Ratzinger,
Cardinal Sean O'Malley,
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Castrillon,
Catholic Church,
celibacy,
charles scicluna,
Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,
chastity,
child pornography,
Church,
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clerical dispensations,
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Connecticut,
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cover-ups,
credibility,
Damian Thompson,
David Cameron,
defrocking,
Der Spiegel,
Dershowitz,
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Evangelical,
Evo Morales,
Fr Alvin Campbell,
Fr Lawrence Murphy,
Fr Marcial Maciel,
Fr Rene Bissey,
Fr Stephen Kiesle,
France,
George Pell,
George Weigel,
Germany,
history,
history of crisis,
holiness,
Holy See v. John Doe,
homosexuality,
humor,
imported priests,
insurance,
international law,
internet,
Ireland,
Italy,
Jeff Anderson,
Jeffrey Anderson,
Jewish defender,
Jewish defender Sam Miller,
Jewish defenders,
Jewish sex abuse,
Jews,
John Jay report,
judicial activism,
Kathryn Jean Lopez,
Kentucky class action suit,
Kenya,
Kiesle,
Laurie Goodstein,
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Lawrence C. Murphy,
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lawsuits,
Legionaries of Christ,
Levada,
Light of the World,
Lithuania,
London Times,
Malta,
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Michael Gerson,
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Miranda Devine,
Monsignor Charles Scicluna,
Monsignor Georg Ratzinger,
moral authority,
moral panic,
morale,
narratives,
Natinal Review Online,
Nazi,
new atheists,
New York,
New York times,
New York Times,
Obama administration ,
ordination of women,
Oregon suit,
origins,
paedophilia,
Papal credibility,
Papal visit to UK,
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Peggy Noonan,
penance,
Peter Tatchell,
Pew Forum,
Pius XI,
Polanski,
policy,
Pope Benedict,
Pope Benedict XVI,
Pope John Paul II,
pornography,
Portugal,
priest abuse crisis,
priest crisis,
priests,
propaganda,
public approval ratings,
public opinion,
public relations,
punitive damages,
Reformation Day,
reforms,
Rembert Weakland,
reporting abuse,
resignations,
Richard Dawkins,
Ross Douthat,
Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela,
same-sex marriage,
Schönborn,
Scouts,
secrecy,
secularism,
seminaries,
sex abuse,
sex abuse safeguards,
sex abuse survivors,
sexual abuse,
sexual revolution,
sin,
Sinead O’Connor,
SNAP,
sociology,
sovereign state,
Spain,
Spiked,
statistics,
statute of limitations,
stem cells,
Stephen Kiesle,
support,
supporters,
Tarciso Bertone,
teachers,
theologians,
theology,
transparency,
Twitter,
U.S. bishops' charter,
U.S. priest abuse scandal,
UK,
UK visit,
United Kingdom,
US,
US politics,
US schools,
Vatican,
Vatican media response,
victims,
victims of sex abuse,
video,
visit to UK,
Washington Post,
Weakland,
Wikileaks,
youth,
YouTube,
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