Summary
David Gibson has it over most of us scribes who cover the Vatican by bits and pieces. Having worked at Vatican Radio five years, he's got the insider experience it takes to write a book, The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and His Battle with the Modern World (HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95, 390 pages), on the first year of Pope Benedict XVI's reign.
His account of the events of April 19, 2005, the day Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became the present pope, square with what I experienced as one of 6,000 journalists covering the event, only Mr. Gibson had far better quotes and sources. Based on my more humble observations, his account is accurate as we were at many of the same press conferences that amazing week.See the full content of this document
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Pope Benedict, His Namesake, a Debate
Mr. Gibson does not have an ax to grind. I looked in vain for the inevitable trashing of the new pope for his conservatism but found a sympathetic background on why Joseph Ratzinger, one of the most promising characters to emerge out of Vatican II, grew disgusted with th...
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