Dominique Strauss Khan... who ? I am French and people of my country barely know him... and YOU think he has a bigger influence or any sort of "power" than The Pope !!! You're kidding us ? Right ? Ingnorant lists makers !
THE GLOBAL ELITE
37: Pope Benedict XVI
Head of the Roman Catholic Church
Published Dec 20, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Jan 5, 2009
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American Catholics in particular, still bruised by the sex-abuse scandals of 2002, regarded the current pope's election in 2005 with suspicion and worse. They feared that Joseph Ratzinger (known to some as "God's Rottweiler," John Paul II's theological enforcer) would turn out to be a my-way-or-the-highway kind of guy. But Benedict XVI's U.S. visit earlier this year—his first as pope—bolstered one of his most traumatized flocks and added immeasurably to his stature. He came off as empathic, gentle, direct. He addressed the sex scandal not once but repeatedly—finally in a tearful private meeting with a small group of victims. Having convinced the world of his remorse, Benedict next year will travel to Jerusalem, where he will have to perform a delicate dance: welcoming interfaith debate while affirming his belief that the events described in the Gospels are real and his is the One True Church.
COVER STORY: THE GLOBAL ELITE
The study of power is not only diverting (which Homer and Shakespeare knew), but illuminating. A biography of an ancient human impulse.
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