Letters to the Editor
LETTER: Vacancy in the Vatican: Why Generation Y Needs an Empathetic Pope
A letter from a Boston College junior on the recent resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.
On Monday, 11 February 2013, Pope Benedict XVI formally announced his Papal resignation due to his advanced age and diminished strength, which has not occurred in the past 600 years. During his term as Pope, Benedict XVI has been confronted with internal scandals arising from within the Church, specifically sexual abuse crises costing the Church two billion dollars in settlements according to Chester Gillis, dean of Georgetown University; however, the Church's scandals cannot solely define the Pontiff's administration, which began in 2005. Globally, he has reached out to the developing world to places where Catholicism is growing, arguably the geographical locations that will be the future of the Catholic Church. Despite the shock and…
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Adam Maleson
3:45 am on Sunday, February 17, 2013
"Despite the shock and confusion Catholics in the world ARE feeling" [proofread] You are a junior in college. You're like 20 years old, maybe 21. So your affiliations with the Catholic Church and Generation Y seem extremely relevant to you at this moment in your life. "Despite the shock and confusion Catholics in the world are feeling regarding Benedict XVI's resignation, the Catholic Church and … more ›