David Novak Quotes
The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
Novak, David. Tradition in the Public Square: A David Novak Reader. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2008.
Hoover was an inveterate racist and had an extreme hatred of King. A month later King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What was not known at the time was Hoover, although it had nothing to do with law enforcement, actually contacted New York Cardinal Spellman and illegally transmitted to him parts of FBI confidential and secret files on King for the purpose of persuading the Pope not to grant King an audience. Nonetheless, Hoover himself had a behind the scenes reputation of leaking for his personal purposes and that much of the contents of many FBI files were notes on unsubstantiated claims made by political enemies and often far from the truth. The Cardinal, the Pope and their staffs chose to ignore the Hoover materials.
David Novak, FRSC is a Jewish theologian, ethicist, and scholar of Jewish philosophy and law (Halakha). He is an ordained Conservative rabbi and holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies as Professor of the Study of Religion and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto since 1997. His areas of interest are Jewish theology, Jewish ethics and biomedical ethics, political theory (with a special emphasis on natural law), and Jewish-Christian relations.
