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Michael WalshMichael Walsh is a writer and broadcaster. He was librarian at Heythrop College from 1972 to 2001. Among his books are The Secret World of Opus Dei (HarperCollins, 2004) and The Conclave: A Sometimes Secret and Occasionally Bloody History (Canterbury Press, 2003). Recent articlesThe pope’s mixed signals Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States was a diplomatic success that also revealed something of the unfolding character of his papacy, says Michael Walsh. A year since the controversial Regensburg address, and on the day the Latin liturgy is restored, Michael Walsh takes the measure of Pope Benedict XVI's leadership of the Catholic church. The Pope and the PatriarchPope Benedict XVI's visit to Turkey was as important for Catholic-Orthodox dialogue as for European-Turkish, says Michael Walsh. But in healing one breach did it open another? The Regensburg address: reason amid certaintyThe leading themes of Pope Benedict's Regensburg speech – faith and reason, Christianity and Europe, the emergence of Islam as Christianity's significant "other" – will outlast the furore it provoked, says Michael Walsh. From Joseph Ratzinger to Pope Benedict XVIThe cardinals’ choice of new pope reflects the Catholic church’s crisis of modernity, says Michael Walsh. |
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