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Profile: New pope, Jesuit Bergoglio,
was runner-up in 2005 conclave
National Catholic Reporter, by John L. Allen Jr.
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Posted By:Drive, 3/14/2013 7:49:04 AM
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| While there are still no tracking polls to establish who´s got legs as a papal candidate, the 2013 conclave at least has one objective measure not available in 2005: past performance. Many of the cardinals seen as candidates now were also on offer the last time around, and someone who had traction eight years ago could be a contender again. By that measure alone, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, at least merits a look.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Attila DiMedici, 3/14/2013 8:23:48 AM (No. 9224230)
My question is this: since it is coming out now that he was the "runner-up" in the 2005 conclave, how come he was not mentioned as one of the front-runners by any of the news reports before the conclave convened?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mitzi, 3/14/2013 10:30:43 AM (No. 9224521)
When 2/3 vote is required, how is "runner-up" calculated?
The National Catholic Reporter is almost as bad as the New York Times.
The National Catholic Register is trustworthy.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
tisHimself, 3/14/2013 11:00:04 AM (No. 9224614)
aka national Catholic Distorter. Once a go to source for all things hip and trendy in the post Vatican II era, now its kind of like your uncle´s leisure suit.
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An IRS official apologized on Friday to tea party organizations and other conservative groups for inappropriately targeting them during the 2012 election, the Associated Press reports. The groups, which enjoyed tax-exempt status under the internal revenue code, were singled out for additional scrutiny of their tax exemption if their names included the words "tea party" or "patriot." In several cases, the groups were asked to provide a list of donors for review, usually a violation of IRS policy. "That was wrong. That was absolutely incorrect, it was insensitive
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Has Stephen Hawking really left the company of Albert Einstein, an avowed Zionist who worked to create the State of Israel, and replaced him with the august company of Elvis Costello and other Israel boycotters? In 1998, I hosted Hawking for a lecture at Oxford, where I introduced him to 1,000 students. He could not have been more humble and approachable. Aside from his lecture, delivered through his voice synthesizer, on string theory — little of which I understood but which my students assured me was “brilliant” — I remember his love of babies and practical jokes.
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The Benghazi Scandal Grows
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Commentary Magazine, by Peter Wehner
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Posted By: Drive- 5/9/2013 3:50:04 PM
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National Journal’s Michael Hirsh, in writing about the House hearings on the September 11, 2012 attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, said, “Benghazi was a tragedy. It will, almost certainly, remain a political issue. What it is not – by a long shot — is a scandal yet.” To understand why this judgment is wrong, it’s helpful to keep in mind that weeks after the attack the Obama administration claimed the cause of the violence was a spontaneous demonstration, not pre-planned attacks; that the cause of the demonstrations was an anti-Muslim YouTube video; and that there was no terrorist involvement in the attacks.
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House Republicans on Thursday called on the Obama administration to release a new batch of e-mails that they believe will shed more light on how the White House and the State Department responded in the days after the attacks on American facilities in Benghazi, Libya. Speaker John A. Boehner, in a written statement, made the request, saying, “The truth shouldn’t be hidden from the American people behind a White House firewall.” His move was the first of many expected by Republicans in the coming days and weeks to try to force the White House to divulge more documents and allow additional witnesses to testify.
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BEIRUT — Syria will supply “game-changing” weapons to Hezbollah, the chief of the Lebanese militia said Thursday, just days after Israeli airstrikes on Damascus targeted what Israel said were shipments of advanced Iranian weapons possibly bound for the group. Any attempts to ship advanced Iranian missiles across Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon would likely draw a new Israeli response, and Thursday’s warning by Hezbollah chief Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, if more than rhetoric, could signal a further escalation. Israel has largely tried to stay out of Syria’s 26-month-old conflict.
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Paper Tiger definition: n, nation, etc., that has the appearance of power but is actually weak and ineffectual. That description perfectly describes our country today. Global chaos reigns today, Nations are crumbling, others are going bankrupt, radical Islamists are waging deadly battles and instead of facing these dire developments, this administration, that represents the world´s remaining super power, blusters and throws out empty threats to hostile forces. It first establishes a red line that Syria must cross before we take action and when that line was crossed, it simply redefined the red line.
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She weathered Whitewater. She made it past Monica ?Lewinsky. Now Hillary Clinton is hoping to beat the rap on Benghazi and make it to the White House. The Clinton political machine is in full campaign mode already, preparing for 2016 and hoping voters forget by then that she had a key role in the Obama administration’s handling of the terror attack. But that’s becoming more difficult as the GOP appears to be laying the groundwork for tying Clinton to Benghazi and making sure it stays front and center in the next campaign.Some of the testimony from State Department whistleblowers
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Report: Muslim cleric invited
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Washington Times, by Jessica Chasmar
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The families of Navy SEALs killed in an August 2011 shoot-down of a helicopter in Afghanistan spoke at a press conference Thursday morning, citing a number of grievances, including an allegation that the Pentagon invited a Muslim cleric who “disparaged in Arabic the memory of these servicemen.” In addition to blasting the Obama administration for the mission and for an official investigation they deemed a cover-up, the families complained that “military brass, while prohibiting any mention of a Judeo-Christian God, invited a Muslim cleric to the funeral for the fallen
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IRS Apologizes for Targeting
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Associated Press, by Stephen Ohlemacher
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Posted By: Judy W.- 5/10/2013 11:14:39 AM
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WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status were singled out for additional reviews. Lerner said the practice, initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati, was wrong and she apologized while speaking at a conference in Washington. Many conservative groups complained during the election
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Let Benghazi´s Chips Fall
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Wall Street Journal, by Editorial
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/9/2013 9:27:45 PM
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Congressman Frank Wolf of Virginia has written House Speaker John Boehner, requesting the creation of a bipartisan Select Committee to investigate the Benghazi terror debacle. It is an excellent idea. A Select Committee is the only means available now for the U.S. political system to extricate itself from the labyrinth called Benghazi. There have been two fulcrum events in the accounting of what happened in Benghazi. The first was U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice´s September 16 declarations on TV that Benghazi was part of the Islamic world´s violent, spontaneous reaction to the incendiary California YouTube video.
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Priest conducts Catholic
service to name 45 aborted
babies found in Gosnell clinic
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Washington Times, by Jennifer Harper
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Posted By: mitzi- 5/9/2013 7:19:50 PM
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A Catholic priest presided over a service Thursday to give proper names to the 45 babies whose bodies were found in the West Philadelphia abortion clinic of Dr. Kermit Gosnell. He is charged with killing five people - a patient and four viable babies that prosecutors say were born alive. He has also been charged with performing late-term abortions that violate Pennsylvania’s 24-week limit on the procedure. “People have names, people deserve names. The name expresses the person. The name recognizes that there is a person there.” said Father Frank Pavone during the
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´Sex Superbug´ Worse than AIDS
Hits Hawaii
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by William Bigelow
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Posted By: mitzi- 5/9/2013 10:30:57 PM
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A new deadly “sex superbug” has been found in two individuals in Hawaii, after surfacing in Japan in 2011. H041, a form of gonorrhea that is resistant to all antibiotics presently available, is considered as deadly as AIDS, and is much faster at killing people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants upward of $50 million from Congress to find an antibiotic that will kill the virus, which has also been found in California and Norway. Alan Christianson, a doctor of naturopathic medicine, said:
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