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Article: The right man.(God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church)(Book review)
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- National Review
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- November 21, 2005
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God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church, by George Weigel (HarperCollins, 296 pp., $26.95)
The election of Pope Benedict XVI seemed both impossible and inevitable, and, after the white smoke had disappeared, the same observers who had assumed that age and controversy would block him would remark how logical the decision was. Some inhabitants of a universe parallel to reality stayed stupefied; the result silenced for dramatic seconds on network air one commentator who had broadcast that Ratzinger's chances were Mined by his homily before the Conclave. It may be that the future Pope had thought the same, for his denunciation of a ...