Conclave dentro de una elecciones que son en secreto. POR QUE? El vaticano no abre su puerta hasta el HUMO. Posibles PAPAS...JR Comenta

Pensé que seria un gran momento para cambios en la iglesia católica y aprovechar así la renuncia del PAPA quien escondió los delitos de muchos cardenales que puede ser que sean elegidos. Humo blanco o negro es lo mismo si pensamos en que la Iglesia no pretender entender que un cambio es indispensable  Curas en todos los países son dejados en total libertad por el delito de abuso sexual con niños y nos son castigados por la ley o por la iglesia. Que esconden y que pretenden. Lo digo ahora y en anteriores artículos.  Miremos que pasa..  JR

Deliberación del cónclave es uno de los misterios mejor guardados, Sin embargo, hay favoritos.

América Latina

Odilo Scherer: Brasileño, 63 años, de origen alemán, arzobispo de Sao Paulo, la mayor diócesis de América Latina y con el mayor número de católicos en el mundo: seis millones. Políglota, afable y con carisma. Especialmente sensible a los problemas sociales y a la vez muy conservador en materia dogmática. Cardenal desde 2007, conoce muy bien la Curia Romana ya que ha desempeñado distintas labores, entre ellas miembro de la Congregación para el Clero, de los Consejos Pontificios para la Familia y para la Nueva Evangelización y sobre todo miembro de la comisión de vigilancia del Instituto para las Obras de Religión (IOR), el banco del Vaticano, blanco de críticas por su gestión poco transparente.

José Francisco Robles: Mexicano, 64 años, con larga experiencia pastoral en su país, fue designado cardenal en noviembre del año pasado. Proviene del segundo país del mundo en número de fieles católicos después de Brasil. Lucha por la paz en medio de la violencia del narcotráfico. Se le conoce por sus dotes diplomáticas .

Europa

Angelo Scola: Arzobispo de Milán, 72 años. Teólogo reconocido. De personalidad seria y enérgica. Gran promotor del diálogo con los países musulmanes a través de la revista Oasis. Con mucha experiencia pastoral, fue también patriarca de Venecia, por donde han pasado cinco papas italianos, entre ellos Juan XXIII. Considerado el discípulo más famoso de Joseph Ratzinger (Benedicto XVI), en el pasado perteneció al influyente y controvertido movimiento italiano de centro derecha Comunión y Liberación, del que se ha alejado en los últimos años.

Peter Erdö: Húngaro, 60 años, arzobispo de Esztergom-Budapest y primado de Hungría, fue durante mucho tiempo el cardenal más joven de Europa. Recibió el título de cardenal en 2003 y desde 2006 preside las Conferencias Episcopales Europeas.

Es muy activo en la llamada nueva evangelización, que lucha contra la secularización, en la defensa del diálogo interreligioso, en particular con el judaísmo.

Christoph Schönborn: Austríaco, 68 años. Arzobispo de Viena. Pertenece a la Orden de los Predicadores (Dominicos). Fue alumno del entonces profesor de teología Joseph Ratzinger en Ratisbona (Alemania). En 2010 sorprendió al solicitar "abrir el debate" sobre el celibato de los curas. Experto en gestión de conflictos. Dispone de elegancia y simpatía innatas. Este "príncipe de la Iglesia" proviene de una familia aristocrática.

Asia

Luis Antonio Tagle: Filipino, arzobispo de Manila, de 55 años. Uno de los purpurados más jóvenes del Colegio Cardenalicio. Apreciado por Benedicto XVI, es muy popular en su país, el más católico de Asia, un continente dominado por el hinduismo, el islamismo y el budismo, pero donde el catolicismo está en alza.

Es considerado un progresista moderado, capaz de mantener el equilibrio con las doctrinas conservadoras. Además de estar alejado de los centros de poder, su juventud y su nombramiento reciente como cardenal (en noviembre pasado) pueden ser un obstáculo para su elección al trono de Pedro.

América del Norte

Marc Ouellet: Canadiense, exarzobispo de Quebec, de 68 años, apodado "el cardenal de hierro" por su rigor al frente de una de las diócesis más laicas de su país.

Preside la Pontificia Comisión para América Latina y es apreciado por los países del sur, sobre todo por los latinoamericanos, ya que trabajó durante once años años en Colombia. Políglota, erudito, es el prefecto de la Congregación para los Obispos y por lo tanto influye en los nombramientos de los obispos en todo el mundo.

Timothy Dolan: Estadounidense, arzobispo de Nueva York, de 63 años, conocido por sus talentos mediáticos, su franqueza y sus bromas. Es considerado como un "conservador creativo". Representa el empuje de la iglesia estadounidense. Moderno en las formas pero tradicional en la práctica, no está dispuesto a negociar los valores tradicionales pero sí a debatir sobre el tema con el mundo no creyente y en los medios de comunicación. Sencillo y firme a la vez. Lidió con transparencia con los escándalos de abusos sexuales que sacudieron a la Iglesia de Estados Unidos.

África

Peter Turkson: Ghanés, de 64 años, presidente del Pontificio Consejo para la Justicia y la Paz. Considerado progresista pero polémico por sus críticas recientes a los musulmanes. Posee una sólida formación teológica y habla, además del fante, su lengua materna, inglés, francés, italiano, alemán y hebreo de forma fluida, además de tener amplios conocimientos de latín y griego. Se le considera un buen diplomático. Participó en el intento de solución de la crisis política marfileña de 2010-2011 e intervino para evitar la violencia en su propio país tras unas disputadas elecciones.

Wilfrid Napier: Sudafricano, de 73 años, acérrimo defensor del dogma y adepto de las redes sociales. Arzobispo de Durban desde 1992 y cardenal desde 2001. De joven estudió en Irlanda, donde se graduó en Latín y Lengua Inglesa. Pertenece a la orden de los franciscanos.

Se alineó con las directrices vaticanas sobre el uso de anticonceptivos y de lucha contra el sida. Argumentó que la distribución gratuita de condones no era efectiva para frenar la epidemia y propuso campañas a favor de la abstinencia.

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Born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured...efforts to eliminate HIV infection in children.. JR Topics

Baby born with HIV is now apparently free of virus

Baby born with HIV is now apparently free of virus, scientists say

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WASHINGTON –  

A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who's now 2 1/2 and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.

There's no guarantee the child will remain healthy, although sophisticated testing uncovered just traces of the virus' genetic material still lingering. If so, it would mark only the world's second reported cure.

Specialists say Sunday's announcement, at a major AIDS meeting in Atlanta, offers promising clues for efforts to eliminate HIV infection in children, especially in AIDS-plagued African countries where too many babies are born with the virus.

"You could call this about as close to a cure, if not a cure, that we've seen," Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health, who is familiar with the findings, told The Associated Press.

A doctor gave this baby faster and stronger treatment than is usual, starting a three-drug infusion within 30 hours of birth. That was before tests confirmed the infant was infected and not just at risk from a mother whose HIV wasn't diagnosed until she was in labor.

"I just felt like this baby was at higher-than-normal risk, and deserved our best shot," Dr. Hannah Gay, a pediatric HIV specialist at the University of Mississippi, said in an interview.

That fast action apparently knocked out HIV in the baby's blood before it could form hideouts in the body. Those so-called reservoirs of dormant cells usually rapidly reinfect anyone who stops medication, said Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins Children's Center. She led the investigation that deemed the child "functionally cured," meaning in long-term remission even if all traces of the virus haven't been completely eradicated.

Next, Persaud's team is planning a study to try to prove that, with more aggressive treatment of other high-risk babies. "Maybe we'll be able to block this reservoir seeding," said Persaud.

No one should stop anti-AIDS drugs as a result of this case, Fauci cautioned.

But "it opens up a lot of doors" to research if other children can be helped, he said. "It makes perfect sense what happened."

Better than treatment is to prevent babies from being born with HIV in the first place.

About 300,000 children were born with HIV in 2011, mostly in poor countries where only about 60 percent of infected pregnant women get treatment that can keep them from passing the virus to their babies. In the U.S., such births are very rare because HIV testing and treatment long have been part of prenatal care.

"We can't promise to cure babies who are infected. We can promise to prevent the vast majority of transmissions if the moms are tested during every pregnancy," Gay stressed.

The only other person considered cured of the AIDS virus underwent a very different and risky kind of treatment -- a bone marrow transplant from a special donor, one of the rare people who is naturally resistant to HIV. Timothy Ray Brown of San Francisco has not needed HIV medications in the five years since that transplant.

The Mississippi case shows "there may be different cures for different populations of HIV-infected people," said Dr. Rowena Johnston of amFAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. That group funded Persaud's team to explore possible cases of pediatric cures.

It also suggests that scientists should look back at other children who've been treated since shortly after birth, including some reports of possible cures in the late 1990s that were dismissed at the time, said Dr. Steven Deeks of the University of California, San Francisco, who also has seen the findings.

"This will likely inspire the field, make people more optimistic that this is possible," he said.

In the Mississippi case, the mother had had no prenatal care when she came to a rural emergency room in advanced labor. A rapid test detected HIV. In such cases, doctors typically give the newborn low-dose medication in hopes of preventing HIV from taking root. But the small hospital didn't have the proper liquid kind, and sent the infant to Gay's medical center. She gave the baby higher treatment-level doses.

The child responded well through age 18 months, when the family temporarily quit returning and stopped treatment, researchers said. When they returned several months later, remarkably, Gay's standard tests detected no virus in the child's blood.

Ten months after treatment stopped, a battery of super-sensitive tests at half a dozen laboratories found no sign of the virus' return. There were only some remnants of genetic material that don't appear able to replicate, Persaud said.

In Mississippi, Gay gives the child a check-up every few months: "I just check for the virus and keep praying that it stays gone."

The mother's HIV is being controlled with medication and she is "quite excited for her child," Gay added.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/03/03/baby-born-with-hiv-is-now-apparently-free-virus-scientists-say/?test=latestnews#ixzz2Mb61R3vK

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beyond the bows..went to bed on a summer night in 2008 and woke Up as a Queen. JR Topics.

The American secretary who became king: A woman's journey to royalty

By Isha Sesay and Teo Kermeliotis, CNN

(CNN) -- When Peggielene Bartels went to bed on a summer night in 2008, she was an ordinary administrative assistant living in a modest one-bedroom condo just outside Washington D.C.

But a few hours later, when a persistent ringing phone woke her up in the dead of the August night, the 55-year-old found out she was much more than simply a secretary.

At the other end of the line was Bartels's cousin, from Otuam, a small fishing village on the coast of Ghana. Excited and humble, he congratulated her on being the new king of Otuam.

"I said, 'listen, it's 4 o'clock in the morning in the U.S., I am very tired, let me sleep,'" remembers Bartels. "I thought he was trying to really play games with me."

From humble secretary to female king

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But this was no time for games.

The previous king of Otuam, who was Bartels's uncle, had just died. The village elders, who remembered Bartels from the times she'd visited with her mother, had decided to anoint her as their new ruler.

After the initial shock, Bartels decided to accept the kingship. Over the course of a few days, she went from being plain old Peggielene Bartels, who had worked for nearly three decades at the Ghanaian Embassy in the United States, to becoming King Peggy -- the first female king of Otuam, reigning over approximately 7,000 people.

"It never ever occurred to me [that I'd be Otuam's king]," says Bartels, who's been living in the United States since her early 20s. "I realized that on this earth, we all have a calling. We have to be ready to accept it because helping my people has really helped me a lot to know that I can really touch their lives," she adds. "I would have really regretted it if I hadn't really accept this calling."

Although she still works at the Ghanaian Embassy, Bartels uses all her holiday every year to spend a month in Otuam.

King is the traditional title of Otuam's ruler, and Bartels says she's happy to be called a king, rather than queen, because it means she can achieve more.

"Most of the time, a king is the one who has all the executive power to do things, while the queen is mostly in charge of the children's affairs and reporting to the king," she says. "So I really love this."

King Peggy was born in Takoradi, southern Ghana, in 1953. She studied in England before moving to the United States, where she became an American citizen in 1997.

But after inheriting the throne, Bartels has been living two very different lives in two different continents.

In Washington, her secretarial duties include typing letters, answering phone calls and booking appointments. In her little apartment her life is far removed from the luxuries of her royal roots.

"When I am in the United States I do everything by myself," she explains. "I do my own laundry, I do my own cooking, I do my own driving and I do my own bed when I wake up in the morning."

But back in Ghana, she stands out as a gold crown-wearing, scepter-holding king who lives in a refurbished palace. Otuam residents usually address her as "Nana" -- an honorary title given to royalty but also to women with grandchildren -- and bow when they see her.

"When I am back home they see me as their king and they want to pamper me," she says.

"They have to cook for me, they have to carry me around and they have to protect me from people. They want to do everything for me which I usually refuse ... Sometimes I say to them 'please, don't bow.' I just want them to be free and comfortable so that way we can really address issues."

I have to really work hard to help my people. I have to give myself to people to better their lives.
King Peggy

But beyond the bows, the royal attire and certain luxuries that come with her title, being a king in an impoverished place like Otuam is all about dealing with the pressing needs of the community and improving the lives of the people, says Bartels.

"To be a king in an African village or some places like this, it's not like European queens where everything is on a silver platter for them," she says. "I have to really work hard to help my people. I have to give myself to people to better their lives."

In the last few years, she's helped poor families pay school fees for their children and brought computers to classrooms. With the help of other Americans she's also provided Otuam with its first ambulance, as well as access to clean, running water. Her next priority, she says, is to bring state-of-the-art toilets to Otuam.

And even when she's not in Ghana, her royal duties do not stop; she wakes up at 1am every morning to call Otuam and be informed about what's happening in the community.

"I talk to my regent, I talk to my elders," Bartels says. "If there is something that I want to know, they tell me. If there is something that I want them to do, I tell them."

Last year, King Peggy's real-life fairy tale was documented in a book written by her and author Eleanor Herman. And now she says her amazing life journey from secretary to king will be told in a film, after Hollywood star Will Smith bought the rights to the book.

"Next year, God willing, we are going to have a movie out there," says King Peggy. "Queen Latifah is going to play me and I'm so happy to at least let the whole world know that a secretary can become a king and lead wisely and help the people."

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