Nothing But The Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer

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In 2016, the world changed. As Trump took the White House, Britain voted for Brexit and populism swept across Europe, people took to talking anxiously about the upheavals of the 1970s and, worse, the 1930s. Bookshop shelves began filling up with titles such as How Democracy Ends, The Road to Unfreedom and The Death of Truth, many of which quoted Orwell. Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism merited a new edition, pitched as “a nonfiction bookend to Nineteen Eighty-Four”. So did Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel about American fascism, It Can’t Happen Here. Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale was as alarming as a documentary. “I was asleep before,” said Elisabeth Moss’s character, Offred. “That’s how we let it happen.” Well, we weren’t asleep any more. I was reminded of something Orwell wrote about fascism in 1936: “If you pretend that it is merely an aberration which will presently pass off of its own accord, you are dreaming a dream from which you will awake when somebody coshes you with a rubber truncheon.” Nineteen Eighty-Four is a book designed to wake you up. Obviously, that thinking is sexist and discriminatory. I was, in effect, questioning why a woman would be doing this job and I have never once questioned why a man did that very same job. During one of the trials in which she received a lot of media attention, I was making an unfortunate point I now regret. My father, a criminal lawyer, said "she is doing an excellent job for her client." End of discussion. He was correct then, and he remains correct right now.

Archbishop Georg Gänswein’s memoir “Nothing but the Truth” is the most talked-about Catholic book in years. John Paul II: Ratzinger’s own superior for many years was the charismatic Polish Pope John Paul II, who summoned him to Rome in 1981 to work as prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He offered the German cardinal his unflagging support in his unpopular role of policing the Church’s doctrinal boundaries. One might feel wistful for the days when Big Brother was a joke and Orwell had “won”, as many commentators thought after the fall of the Berlin Wall. An era plagued by far-right populism, authoritarian nationalism, rampant disinformation and waning faith in liberal democracy is not one in which Nineteen Eighty-Four can be easily dismissed.

Summary

If you've come for a defense of any kind, you will not receive it. There is nothing to defend. If you've come looking for details about the cases in which Henein was involved, you will not find them. This is a book about Marie Henein. It is her story first and foremost. She speaks of her family, her career, and her unending passion for criminal law and democracy. His role is to be “glass” — i.e., transparent, clean, and honest — but also a gatekeeper for those who want to get closer to the pope. This is what he has always done and tries to do in this book. Gänswein defends Benedict XVI’s use of the term “pope emeritus” and his decision to continue dressing in white against claims that they sowed confusion. He says the German pope was obliged at the time of his retirement “to make some decisions knowing full well that they were not perfect.” Also: Never engage in a battle of wills in front of a full classroom. Problem solve in the hallway or between classes.

Benedict’s gesture has been interpreted as an indication of a willingness to resign that would occur several years later. team. Then the homeroom classes all change teachers, and Philip winds up in Mrs. Narwin's homeroom. Gänswein recalls that Benedict XVI was saddened by attempts — by both supporters and detractors — to exaggerate the differences between the Argentine pope and his predecessor. He describes Francis as an assiduous visitor at the pope emeritus’ new residence, the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican Gardens, bearing gifts of wine and dulce de leche. He offers an extended defense of the pope’s “most discussed and problematic appointment”: that of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone as head of the powerful Vatican Secretariat of State, which was opposed by his predecessor Cardinal Angelo Sodano as Bertone was not a diplomat. But Gänswein’s account nevertheless highlights many of Bertone’s perceived shortcomings.

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The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2008. It was scheduled to open in New York City and Los Angeles on December 19, but because distributor Yari Film Group filed for Chapter 11 protection, it was never given a theatrical release. [4] Plot [ edit ] However, it was not like that, Gänswein reveals. He explains that Benedict XVI wanted to do an act of homage to his predecessor. So he placed a pallium, which Archbishop Piero Marini, at the time master of liturgical celebrations for Pope John Paul II, had sewn. This pallium fell uncomfortably on the shoulders of Benedict XVI, who thus took advantage of the opportunity to pay homage and donate it. The decision also tells much about how Benedict XVI dealt with the issues: He sought elegant solutions without offending anyone while trying to unite everyone.