Tradition Will Direct Benedict

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VATICAN CITY - In electing the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new pope, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church have chosen not only one of the most theologically conservative among their ranks, but also a brilliant German-born theologian whose world view was shaped by Europe - and remains focused there.

As president of the Congrega-tion for the Doctrine of the Faith, Pope Benedict XVI devoted much of his long Vatican career to condemning the "dictatorship of relativism" - the modernist notion that there are no universal truths or universal standards of right and wrong - and to asserting the Catholic vision of truth and morality.

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Tradition Will Direct Benedict

As pope, he will very likely continue John Paul II's policy of a "strong Rome" that oversee...

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