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What do the pope and the head of CNN have in common?
What do the pope and the head of CNN have in common? Cardinal Edward Egan tells Christiane Amanpour.
Cardinal Dolan for pope? You ‘might be smoking marijuana’
PART 1: Cardinal Timothy Dolan
On the day Benedict XVI left the papacy, Christiane Amanpour sat down with U.S. Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
PART 2: Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Part 2 of Christiane Amanpour's conversation with Cardinal Timothy Dolan, on the day Benedict XVI stepped down.
By Mick Krever, CNN
Cardinal Timothy Dolan is on many Vatican-watchers' short-lists as a papal contender, but he isn’t having any of it.
“I said people who say that might be drinking too much grappa or smoking marijuana,” he coyly told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an in-depth interview on Thursday. “I'm flattered that people think that, but I wouldn't bet the house payment on it.”
Cardinal Dolan spoke with Amanpour on the day that Benedict XVI – now pope emeritus – lifted off from Vatican City in a helicopter and left the papacy forever.
To choose his replacement, 115 cardinals, Dolan among them, will soon enter into a conclave.
It is the first time that Cardinal Dolan will vote for a Holy Father; Pope Benedict XVI elevated him to the College of Cardinals just last year.
Thursday afternoon, that group of scarlet-gowned men bid their final respect to the outgoing pope.
“It was very touching,” Cardinal Dolan said of his 15-second encounter with the pontiff. “And I don't mind admitting that it was kind of somber; it was kind of sad. I love him.”
Papal ruby shoes custom made, but not by Prada
While covering Pope Benedict XVI's final hours in the papacy, Christiane Amanpour cleared up a common misconception about the pope's ruby slippers - all live on CNN air. Watch above.
How do cardinals pick a pope? "You don’t pick your buddy"
By Mick Krever, CNN
Becoming the pope is not a popularity contest.
When 115 cardinals from around the world sit down to choose a new pope, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday, they are thinking about only one thing: what God wants.
“You have your ballot in your hand,” he said. “You’re going to put it in the urn, this ballot in which you have written a name down of one of the cardinals.”
Looming above the voting cardinal is Michelangelo's imposing fresco, “the Last Judgment.”
“Every time you do it,” Cardinal McCarrick said, “you feel that same thing. ‘Lord, am I doing the right thing? Have I picked the right man?’”
In other words, he told Amanpour, “You don’t pick your buddy.”
Cardinal McCarrick is the Archbishop Emeritus of Washington D.C. Though he attended Pope Benedict XVI’s packed final public address today, he will not be able to cast a vote for the next pope. He is, to put it politely, of a certain age – only cardinals under age 80 may vote.
Through those many decades in the Church, he has seen the ups and downs. As the Vatican prepares for a new leader, many Catholics around the world believe that the child-sex abuse scandal, among others, spell a reckoning for the Church as it has rarely seen before.
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Iran nuclear negotiator: Talks taking 'realistic' turn
By Josh Levs, CNN
World powers did not push Iran to halt enrichment at its nuclear plants during secretive talks Wednesday, the country's chief negotiator said.
In an interview with CNN, Saeed Jalili said the six-nation bloc conducting the negotiations is taking more "realistic" steps, including "paying more attention to the rights of Iran."
The so-called P5+1 - the United States, France, Britain, Germany, China and Russia - did not release details of the meeting in Kazakhstan aimed at working toward a resolution of the international battle over Iran's nuclear activities. But negotiators acknowledged making some concessions.
Jalili, in an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, also stayed mum about what was being offered. But he indicated that some previous requests may be off the table.
American writer: “No matter what, I’m still Catholic”
By Mick Krever, CNN
Mary Elizabeth Williams thinks the Vatican is strict, dogmatic, and backward-looking. She is also a committed Catholic.
With so much scandal and conservatism on the key issues of today, it is not unreasonable to ask why progressive Catholics stay in the Church.
“I think to be questioning, and to call out hypocrisy, and to illuminate injustice when you see it is about as Christ-like as you can get,” Williams told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
A country where "insane" is the best hope
By Mick Krever, CNN
The “elite tend to not see what they don’t want to see,” Italian journalist Lucia Annunziata told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
She was reacting to the deadlocked political landscape that Italy faces as results from its latest election were announced on Tuesday.
Italian parties never win outright majorities, Annunziata said, so as in most parliamentary systems must enter into a coalition.
What is astounding is just how great the impasse is that Italy seems to face.
Former Catholic friar: homosexuality is “the ticking time bomb”
Church in crisis: The Vatican responds
Christiane Amanpour, reporting from Rome, speaks with Assistant Vatican Spokesperson Father Tom Rosica.
Homosexuality and the Catholic Church
Christiane Amanpour speaks with Mark Dowd, an openly gay former Dominican friar.
Veteran journalist on papacy in crisis
Christiane Amanpour, reporting from Rome, speaks veteran Vatican journalist Marco Politi about a papacy in crisis.
by Mick Krever, CNN
Homosexuality is “the ticking time bomb in the Catholic Church,” a former Dominican friar told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
Mark Dowd, who is himself openly gay, spoke to Amanpour as a blitz of new scandals hit the Catholic Church, just days before Pope Benedict XVI is set to step down from the papacy.
The Vatican announced on Monday that the archbishop of Scotland is resigning, a day after British newspapers published accusations of decades-long sexual misconduct with other priests. An American Cardinal is facing fresh allegations of covering up abuse. And Italian newspapers over the weekend published sordid accounts of homosexuality and blackmail within the Church hierarchy.
That last allegation, of a secret “cabal” of gay priests, has been dubbed the “Vati-leaks” scandal.
“When you have this culture of secrecy and guilt and repression,” Dowd said, “you have conditions which foster the potential for blackmail and for manipulation.”
The Maestro: cultural diplomacy through music
By Mick Krever, CNN
The greatest compliment conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim ever got was from a young man in the Gaza Strip.
“‘We feel the world has forgotten us,’” Barenboim recounted a man from Gaza telling him. “‘Some people remember us and they send food and medicines – but then, you would do that for animals, too. But you came and played music, made us feel like human beings again.’"
Barenboim is an Israeli, and at 10 years old stepped onto the world stage as a child-prodigy pianist.
Now, the world-famous conductor brings together bitter enemies to share music stands and the orchestra pit.
His aim, he has said, is to find out whether “music really is the universal language.”
Risking sexual assault to serve your country
Combating sexual assault in the military
Air Force Sgt. Jennifer Smith speaks with Christiane Amanpour about the repeated harassment she suffered.
WEB EXTRA: Rape in the military, Part 2
In a special web extra, Sgt. Jennifer Smith speaks with Christiane Amanpour about her personal story.
By Mick Krever, CNN
It is not every day that the man in charge of all of America’s Air Force calls a modest sergeant. Which is why Jennifer Smith was so surprised to get General Mark Welsh’s call.
Sgt. Smith had filed a formal complaint alleging sexual assault and harassment, which she said had gone on for years. When she finally revealed the assault to her superior officers, after years of keeping it a secret, she expected the Air Force to act.
“I was so caught off-guard by the fact that he called me, and considering who he is, and I know my place, I said, ‘Yes, sir. Well thank you for calling me.’”
“He just said that he was going to do the best that he could,” Smith told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
But as far as Sgt. Smith is concerned, the phone call, and all the conversations with her superior officers that led up to it, have amounted to nothing.
“They know the case,” she said, “but as far as I’m concerned, nothing has been done.”
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