Forming the Faith
So in your opinion the church has addressed the issue fully?
Oh, yes. I think so. We do a study every year, and we make it public. If there's any new accusation, it's usually about a case from 20 to 30 years ago.
Your schedule is packed, but you are known to be a sportsman. We've read that you swim at least 50 laps a day.
I used to. I don't really have access to a pool like I used to.
If you're tapped for further promotion—as has traditionally happened with your position—you could become a cardinal. Then you won't swim at all.
Well, you can't have everything in life.
Of course, that would put you in line for a potential papal election, too.
Well, I don't want to look that far down the road. I have enough trouble just balancing tomorrow's schedule.
You pointed out this ivory crucifix on your wall. What is its history?
This is probably an 18th-century ivory crucifix, and I found it in a flea market in Rome. I needed something to put it on and they had just finished redoing all the papal apartments in the Vatican. This was the damask that had hung on the walls in the study under John XXIII and Pius XII. So I asked if I could have a piece, and that's the background. It has been with me ever since.
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Posted By: chinese tibet @ 04/26/2008 9:39:43 AM
Comment: Oppose France, England, Germany, Japan ,USA???
Oppose CNN is not actual report to China!
CNN's Jack Cafferty is a ignorant garbage???
Sustain the Beijing Olympics!
Tibet is inviolable territory in China from time immemorial, China never relinquished control of Tibet.
Dalai Lama is Chinese splittist.
France, Germany, England, Japan, American people does not understand reality of Tibet!
Occidental news is inauthenticity for China.
China is amity, but China is unconquerable come from threaten for fremdness !
Please see the following Web address in the concerning the photo that true of China Tibet:
http://blog.ifeng.com/706796.html
Posted By: chinese tibet @ 04/26/2008 9:37:59 AM
Comment: Oppose France, England, Germany, Japan ,USA???
Oppose CNN is not actual report to China!
CNN's Jack Cafferty is a ignorant garbage???
Sustain the Beijing Olympics!
Tibet is inviolable territory in China from time immemorial, China never relinquished control of Tibet.
Dalai Lama is Chinese splittist.
France, Germany, England, Japan, American people does not understand reality of Tibet!
Occidental news is inauthenticity for China.
China is amity, but China is unconquerable come from threaten for fremdness !
Please see the following Web address in the concerning the photo that true of China Tibet:
http://blog.ifeng.com/706796.html