When "Identical" Tires Aren’t The Same

A few years ago I watched a half-dozen tire-company engineers, all also skilled test drivers, examine a pair of visually indistinguishable tires that offered radically different wet-track performance. The first of these twin tires offered no more than modest damp-road traction, while the second was spectacular on the wet-handling course. All of us were in for a reminder of why two tires that look the same don?t perform the same?a lesson that all car owners should take to heart.

Here?s the back story: The marketing department of a certain tire company where I worked had invited a gaggle of guests to drive the same make and model of car (Mustangs from a rental car agency, if I recall correctly) with two sets of tires?ours and the competition?s?so the guests could see for themselves that the home team?s tires whip the opposition. However, as the buses of big shots rolled into the facility, we conducted a just-to-be-sure test with a freshly mounted set of the competition?s product?which proved to be faster than the hero tire. The event organizer?me?lost (even more) hair when a test driver reported that the new set of our competition?s tires beat the older set by 4 seconds per lap.

Fortunately, I?d kept the first of the twins mounted on wheels because, well, just in case. I called an audible: Put the original set of twins on the car. Our guests saw the home team win by a large advantage, and everyone was happy. Everyone, that is, except the engineers, who wanted to know why.

Observing a group of befuddled engineers attempting and failing to solve a problem can be entertaining. Both logic and egos suffer. To test the seemingly identical tires, the engineers carefully rolled the pair across the garage floor in a failed attempt to find subtle differences in tread pattern. They each quadruple-checked the tires? model name and size, country of origin, and date of production.

We knew the car wasn?t the difference. The make, model, and trim level were unchanged. The track was the same and the weather virtually identical. Back-to-back retests of the twins reconfirmed the reversal.

The engineers weren?t going to give up until they?d found an answer. And then I spotted it: a star on the second twin that did not appear on the first. A quick search showed that the star indicated this tire was intended for a BMW. Another search showed that Brand X produced this model and size tire for both BMW and a General Motors car. In The Other Company?s catalog, the two tires were listed on different lines and had different part numbers. It turns out that our marketing folks had accidentally ordered the tires designed for a BMW.

So though the tires looked like twins from the outside, the difference between them was as big as the difference between BMW and GM. BMW, as befits its reputation, favored tires with more grip in dry, damp, and wet conditions. GM at the time demanded tires that had good snow traction. The problem is that improving dry- and damp-road grip hurts snow traction.

For the first of the twins?the ones we meant to compete against for an easy victory in front of the bigwigs?the tire designer gave up wet grip to get GM?s demanded level of snow traction. But the second "identical" pair traded snow traction for BMW?s targeted level of dry and wet traction. That?s how the same car with the "same" tires made such a faster time around the wet track.

Here?s the takeaway for the car owner: A pair of tires aren?t necessarily the same even if they?re from the same manufacturer, have an identical model name, are of the same size, and are visually indistinguishable. Mixing our identical twins on one car will make it diabolical in urgent handling maneuvers and likely make the vehicle feel odd in everyday driving.

On at least one sidewall of every tire is the tire identification number." It begins with "DOT" and ends with the last two digits of the year the tire was built. It also includes a code for the factory where it was built and other information. But even if consumers have the plant codes (they can be found at ftp://ftp.nhtsa.dot.gov/Manufacture, though you?ll need Microsoft Access), it?s unlikely they can be certain two tires are truly identical.

Said another way: Once the information sticker is pulled from a new tire?s tread, there?s no way a consumer can be certain of its stock-keeping-unit (SKU) number. If you?re buying new tires and not going to replace all four tires at once, you?ll have to rely?and keep a close eye?on your tire dealer. Make sure you don?t mix the twins. The result will be an unhappy sibling rivalry.

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Sandusky stays silent

BELLEFONTE, Pa. ? Connie Bowland arrived on the steps of the Centre County Courthouse at 3:20 a.m. Wednesday with her daughter, sister and niece. The guidance counselor at an area elementary school was here for one reason.

"I want to look him in the eye, I want to see him, face him," Bowland said.

"Him" is Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State defensive coordinator and founder of the Second Mile charity that was designed to help at-risk youth. Over the last 13 years, Bowland sent numerous kids to Second Mile.

She thought then they were going to camps and programs. Now she believes it was right into the line of a predator.

"I feel total betrayal," Bowland said. "I sent him these kids that were at risk, underprivileged, to give them an opportunity they wouldn't have."

When Bowland heard on television Sandusky might take the witness stand Wednesday in his own defense against 51 counts of sexual molestation of children, she decided she couldn't miss it. If Jerry Sandusky was going to face the court, Connie Bowland wanted her face to be one of the ones he saw.

"I want to hear from him," she said.

She wouldn't get the chance.

The defense rested at 11:45 a.m. ET with Sandusky still seated at a table, silent.

[Related: Sandusky juror profiles: All Caucasians, most have ties to Penn State]

That's Sandusky's right and the jury of 12 has been instructed not to hold it against him. The prosecution decided to call no further witnesses. Judge John Cleland said closing arguments will begin Thursday at 9 a.m.

"How we getting home?" Sandusky asked his attorneys a few minutes later, as the courtroom cleared. It was a question loaded with literal and figurative meaning. He was told a family friend would drive him for what may be his last commute: He faces hundreds of years in prison if convicted on all counts. The jury could get the case by midday Thursday. They will be sequestered if deliberations push into Friday.

On a grander scale, the defense thinks they can bring Sandusky home for good after just three days of evidence and testimony and no words from the man on trial.

The risk of keeping Sandusky silent is that those jurors held the same opinion as Bowland, part of a community that feels the 68-year-old owes them an explanation. At the very least they were eager to hear his side of a he said-he said that included the testimony, often powerful, from eight alleged victims and two other witnesses to assaults.

Jerry Sandusky faces a possible long jail term. (AP)

Instead, the defense will bank on creating reasonable doubt by asserting Sandusky was the target of an overaggressive police investigation that coached potential victims, worked with a local newspaper and employed unethical tactics to frame a good man who simply wanted to help kids.

It's a huge gamble in the face of last week's emotionally gut-wrenching prosecution presentation. The state sent out a parade of men who through tears, sobs and gasps of breath detailed horrific act after horrific act in Penn State locker rooms, Sandusky's kid-friendly basement and hotel rooms on football road trips.

Terms such as "tickle monster," "soap battles," "it's your turn," "bloody underwear," "he blew on my stomach" and "severe sexual position," to name but a few, were seared into the jury's minds.

Putting Sandusky on the stand would have been fraught with risk. He didn't handle himself well in media interviews with NBC and the New York Times. However, not personally addressing the specific charges and explaining his propensity to shower with and lay in bed with young boys, activities Sandusky acknowledges he did regularly, is riskier.

[Related: Dan Wetzel: Jerry Sandusky's defense bolstered by tape of police interview]

The defense, according to a source, considered putting Sandusky on the stand as late as Tuesday evening but instead decided to go with what they could without the defendant's own words. No one was certain of the decision deep into Wednesday morning.

Over three days this week, the defense called a slew of character witnesses to assert Sandusky was a loving, caring, generous mentor to children. There was fairly ineffectual psychologist testimony trying to explain away the so-called "creep love letters" he sent Victim No. 4.

The defense made small dents in the credibility of former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary, who testified he walked in on Sandusky and an unknown boy in the Penn State showers in 2001. It's unlikely it was enough to cause the jury to discount the entire testimony.

Instead, the focus was on sloppy police work. Tuesday's airing of an unexpected tape recording of one state trooper providing Victim No. 4 with background information on what other witnesses alleged contradicted specific testimony from the cops that they never engaged in such a practice.

Wednesday, as temperatures rose outside and courtroom No. 1 was filled to capacity for the first time in the trial, the defense continued to chip away.

It called David Hilton, now 21, who spent a great deal of time as a youth with Sandusky, including taking out-of-state trips and staying in the Sandusky basement. He said nothing inappropriate ever occurred but said he didn't trust police investigators when they questioned him on multiple occasions.

"I felt like they wanted me to say something that wasn't true," Hilton said. "They asked me the same question over and over."

Prosecutors countered that it was Hilton's uncle, concerned about his contact with Sandusky, who contacted them and even called again Tuesday evening.

[Related: Neighbors of jurors in Sandusky trial don't support him, want justice]

The defense was also able to introduce an email from Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot news reporter Sara Ganim to the mother of Victim 6 saying the mother could contact a specific police investigator on the case.

Defense attorney Joe Amendola intimated in a hearing Tuesday afternoon that the defense might try to link that email with Ganim breaking news that Sandusky was under grand jury investigation to assert the cops and the newspaper were working together. More alleged victims came forward after news of the grand jury broke in March 2011.

Is a grand conspiracy enough here? Even if a juror believes it, how do they explain away McQueary, who first made his allegations in 2001, a group of janitors who said Sandusky was involved in a locker room molestation in 2000, and the 1998 investigation by Penn State police where charges were not filed?

The defense had little to work with in this case.

Sandusky's admitted behavior is troubling to most. They can't argue he never showered with boys. Instead they have to say that, yes he hugged and wrestled with them naked in empty shower rooms, but that it didn't, as all these kids insisted, go any further.

Trust Jerry, they'll say, even if you didn't hear from him directly.

"That's not enough for me," Connie Bowland said. "I'm angry."

The only good news for the defense is she isn't one of the jurors.

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Windows phones to miss out on new software

(AP) ? As it struggles to gain a foothold against the iPhone and Android phones, Microsoft Corp. is planning to issue a dramatic update to its phone software, one that won't be available to current Windows Phones.

The new software, Windows Phone 8, will be available on new phones this fall, Microsoft said Wednesday at a presentation in San Francisco. The software will bring Windows phones closer to PCs and tablets running the company's upcoming Windows 8, which is also scheduled to launch later this year.

With its planned software updates ?and the Surface tablet computer it introduced earlier this week? Microsoft is taking dramatic steps to ensure that it plays a major role in the increasingly important mobile market.

But the company is playing catch-up in an arena dominated by Apple and Google. Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 in 2010, making a clean break with its previous phone software, which had become outdated. Nokia Corp., until recently the world's biggest maker of phones, has pledged to use it for all its smartphones, and launched its first Windows Phone in the U.S. earlier this year.

Sales have been anemic, however. IDC estimated that 2.2 percent of the smartphones shipped worldwide in the first quarter of this year ran Microsoft's software, compared to 23 percent for Apple and 59 percent for Android. Still, U.S. wireless carriers support Windows Phone, seeing it as a valuable counterweight to the clout of Apple Inc.'s iPhone and phones running Google Inc.'s Android software.

Windows Phone is making progress in one respect. Hit games "Words With Friends" and "Draw Something" will be among the apps available for Windows 8. There are 100,000 applications available for Windows phones today, Microsoft said. That's far less than the number of apps available for iPhones and Android phones.

Windows Phone 8 will accept expansion memory cards, like Android phones do. It will also work on processors with more than one computing "core," which are common in high-end smartphones. More cores boost computing power and can cut power consumption.

The new software will also work with near-field communications chips, allowing phones to be used in place of credit cards at some payment terminals. At the conference, Microsoft's head of phone software, Joe Belfiore, demonstrated how NFC can be used to link two phones so their owners can play a Scrabble-like game. Tapping the phones together can engage NFC, and prompt the devices to establish a link over Wi-Fi.

Some recent Android phones come with NFC capabilities, but they're missing from the iPhone.

Windows Phone 8 will share the operating system "kernel," or most basic functions, with Windows 8 RT, which will run on tablets and computers. That means manufacturers will have an easier time making hardware that can use either system. Developers will have an easier time moving applications from one platform to the other, Microsoft said.

Changing its phone software at such a basic level means that it will be difficult to install on existing Windows phones.

Associated Press

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College coaches with NFL potential

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ESPN analyst Brock Huard has a lengthy piece today on Oregon coach Chip Kelly and his potential adaptability to an NFL head-coaching job. As you know, Kelly drew interest from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this offseason before former Rutgers coach Greg Schiano took the job.

Former Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh's immediate success with the San Francisco 49ers this past season, Huard suggests, has NFL teams searching for the next Harbaugh. While Chip Kelly is the basis of the story, Huard suggests Brian Kelly, along with three other college coaches, as someone who could handle the transition to the next level Insider.

(As Huard notes, Brian Kelly is by no means looking for an NFL job. So you all can relax.)

You'll need Insider to read the full piece, but Huard cites the same four factors with both Kellys in thinking they could be good NFL fits: grind, adaptability, tunnel vision and the "it" factor. Kelly is, as Huard calls him, "a self-made football junkie," having success across all levels of football.

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Nuns, Boy Scouts among new wildfire evacuees

Wildfires across the West drove hundreds of people from their homes from California to Colorado, where nuns living in a monastery and Boy Scouts at camp are among those who've fled.

Firefighters are making progress on a 92 square-mile blaze in northern Colorado despite hot, dry weather although more residents were notified to be ready to leave Tuesday. The fire west of Fort Collins is 50 percent contained after firefighters labored in temperatures in the 90s to extend lines around the blaze Monday. Expected strong winds didn't materialize but gusts of around 30 mph were forecast Tuesday along with more hot weather.

Eight more homes were found burned Monday, bringing the damage so far to at least 189 ? the most in the state's history. Houses in the area already burned by the fire are still at risk because of pockets of unburned fuel.

Other wildfires were burning in warm, arid weather from Wyoming to Arizona to Southern California, where a blaze that prompted the evacuation of 150 homes was 75 percent contained Tuesday.

Firefighters were able to make progress on the 900-acre fire in eastern San Diego County after getting a break from overnight winds.

In Colorado, another fire that started Sunday in the foothills west of Colorado Springs prompted evacuations of residents, a Boy Scout camp and a recreation area near the Elevenmile Canyon Reservoir, which provides water to the Denver area. A monastery of nuns also evacuated as a precaution.

A nun who returned to feed the chickens at the remote monastery Tuesday said the fire was about two miles from the site. She said sacred items from the chapel, including a chalice, along with insurance papers and historical documents were removed Sunday as slurry bombers flew over the property.

That fire has burned nearly 2 square miles, and fire managers said it has the potential to grow much more in an area where logs are drier than pine boards from a lumber yard.

As firefighters try to get the upper hand on the blaze near Fort Collins, which has burned large swaths of private and U.S. Forest Service land since it began June 9, local authorities have dispatched roving patrols to combat looting.

Deputies arrested Michael Stillman Maher, 30, of Denver, Sunday on charges including theft and impersonating a firefighter.

Jeff Corum, whose home burned on the first day of the northern Colorado fire, described whirling, unpredictable winds that drove the blaze.

"That's what it's been doing, back and forth," Corum said. "It's just like a washing machine, and it's just rolling up there, and that's the way the mountains are."

Corum grabbed some clothing and two weapons when he fled, but not his credit cards. He's spent a few nights in a motel, some at a Red Cross evacuation center and some in his truck.

On Monday, Rocky Mountain National Park enacted a ban on all campfires because of the threat of wildfires in Colorado. The park normally allows campfires in designated fire rings, but the ban will prohibit those, as well as charcoal grilling, for the first time since September 2010.

Authorities also are trying to enforce a ban on using private fireworks in Colorado.

In other fires:

  • In Idaho, a fast-moving wildfire near Mountain Home destroyed five homes and several outbuildings Monday evening. The blaze quickly moved through the area as Southwest Idaho remained under a red flag warning Sunday and Monday because of high temperatures, low humidity and high winds ? conditions conducive to explosive and destructive fires.
  • In Wyoming, more experienced fire managers and crews took over the fight against a wildfire burning in a rough, mountainous area of the Medicine Bow National Forest. The fire has burned about four square miles since Sunday. About 40 residents of the area's scattered ranches and cabins have been advised to evacuate.
  • In Nevada, a 10,000-acre wildfire north of Ely was 15 percent contained. Aerial mapping showed the fire was smaller than thought.
  • In New Mexico, firefighters were taking advantage of favorable weather conditions to battle a wildfire that has destroyed 242 homes and businesses. More than 1,100 firefighters remained in Ruidoso as they fight to hold the Little Bear Fire that is now 60 percent contained. Another fire broke out Monday and burned three structures along a 5-mile stretch of the San Juan River in far northwestern New Mexico. The fire, burning east of Bloomfield, is 30 percent contained. The fire in the Gila Wilderness, already the largest in state history, grew another 1,000 acres to 463 square miles and is 80 percent contained.
  • In Arizona, firefighters were building containment lines around a 3,700-acre blaze on the Tonto National Forest to try to protect electric transmission lines that provide power to the state's major metropolitan areas. The fire was 15 percent contained Tuesday.
  • In northwest Nebraska, a fire has charred an estimated 5,000 acres in Sioux County. Fire officials said it was 50 percent to 65 percent contained Tuesday afternoon.
  • In Hawaii, the upcountry Kula fire was declared 90 percent contained Tuesday morning. The wildfire burned six acres and damaged three homes.

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Interstate adoptions: Harder than they should be? | The Salt Lake ...

Red tape ? Group urges standardized procedures nationwide to encourage more adoptions by out-of-state families.

New York ? Fewer children would be stuck in foster care if state authorities reduced red tape and standardized procedures nationwide to encourage more adoptions by out-of-state families, according to a coalition of child welfare experts appealing for change.

"Children wait in foster care not because there aren?t enough families to adopt them, but because of artificial barriers we erect," said Jeff Katz, executive director of Listening to Parents, a Boston-based group that organized the initiative.

The coalition ? representing several of the nation?s leading adoption advocacy groups ? issued a report Tuesday detailing some of these barriers and proposing steps to overcome them.

One proposal would be to standardize the home study courses that are required of all parents seeking to adopt. At present, home studies vary widely and some states do not accept the preparations made by a family in another state.

Another proposal is to adjust the federal adoption incentive policy so both the sending and receiving states are rewarded for interstate adoptions. According to the report, the current system rewards the sending state for finalizing an adoption, while the state receiving the child may not get fully compensated for costs of recruitment and post-adoption support.

The report cites federal data showing that there were only 4,600 interstate adoptions out of 690,000 children adopted from foster care between 1998 and 2009. In the 2010 fiscal year, according to Katz, there were 527 interstate adoptions out of about 53,000 total adoptions from foster care.

The U.S. child welfare system is complex, with every state ? as well as many cities and counties ? operating their own agencies and programs under a patchwork of state and federal laws. By the latest federal count, there were about 408,000 children in foster care nationwide, including more than 100,000 who were eligible to be adopted.

One of the advocates endorsing the new report, Kathleen Strottman of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, said Congress might need to be involved in any efforts to rebalance the financial incentives for adoption. However, she said moves to standardize home studies requirements could be undertaken by the states themselves if they were willing to cooperate and overcome possible mistrust.

"The less we can treat this as a state-by-state issue, the better," she said. "The needs of children are similar. The opportunities for children should be similar."

Other experts endorsing the report included Richard Barth, dean of the University of Maryland?s School of Social Work; Joe Kroll, executive director of the St. Paul, Minn.-based North American Council on Adoptable Children, and Rita Soronen, CEO of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.

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An adoption expert not involved with the new report, Adam Pertman of the Donaldson Adoption Institute, said he and fellow advocates nationwide have been battling for years to eliminate barriers to interstate adoptions.

"For whatever policy reasons, we can?t seem to lick them, and the bottom line is the kids are the losers," Pertman said. "It?s a states? rights thing ? states saying, ?We know what we?re doing and no one else should tell us what to do.?"

One parent who encountered multiple roadblocks is Amy Friedman, founder and CEO of a consulting firm in New York City.

While applying to adopt from the city?s child welfare agency, Friedman also made inquiries about adopting from Oregon and Washington state, and was told that the agencies there were likely to give priority to in-state families.

Friedman tried several other states, and encountered agency employees who did not want to work with the New York City agency, which would have been involved in various interstate procedures.

Finally, Friedman succeeded in adopting a 13-year-old boy in Connecticut two years ago, but only after extensive efforts to overcome the reluctance of a caseworker who said the New York City system was hard to deal with.

Her message to other parents in similar positions is to persevere. "It?s not going to be easy," she said. "You have to find an open-minded individual."

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Buying Bedroom Furniture from online furniture stores ...

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Your bedroom is the most relaxing room in your house, where you can retreat to recharge your batteries after a long day at work. Furniture stores offer you many selections from which to make your choices. You spend a lot of time in your bedroom, and it should be comfortable and welcoming. A bedroom can be furnished with stylish pieces of oak, or furnishings made from other materials, to create an environment that brings on restful sleep.

The bed will be the first piece of furniture you probably look for, when you shop for your bedroom. A solid bed can give you good looks as well as years of service. Make sure you buy a quality bed, in a material that works for your d?cor, and your lifestyle, as well. You will find many options available to you, and that may be the most difficult thing you face ? having too many beds to choose from. Measure your bedroom before you shop, so that you can eliminate any beds that would make your bedroom feel cluttered.

Buying a bed also involves deciding whether you?ll need double, queen, king or California king size.

Any size you buy should be made solidly, and accent the rest of your room. Furniture stores offer many choices in beds and other bedroom furnishings as well, like chests of drawers, cabinets, wardrobes and dressers. Choose woods that look good together, to make your room harmonious.

You will use chairs and dressing tables every day, so you need them to be well-made. Oak is a frequent choice for bedroom furniture, because it is elegant and also strong. Cabinets and wardrobes also need to be exceptionally well-made, to last a long time. Bedside tables are quite handy, so that you have a place to put your book and glasses at the end of the evening, when you?re ready to go to sleep.

Buying your bedroom furnishings in sets is a great way to make sure they match well. You will find sets at most furniture stores, and this is one way to make your shopping easier, since you?ll be choosing several pieces at the same time. A bed, desk, bedside table and chest of drawers is a good example of a typical bedroom set. If you have the room, a reclining or occasional chair will add more style to your bedroom.

When you furnish children?s bedrooms, you still want to look for quality materials and construction, since kids tend to be rough on furniture. There are lots of choices available for children?s rooms, too, and your child is sure to let you know what type of bed he or she likes the best. You can build the rest of the room around that.

Pine is frequently used in children?s bedroom sets, since it is easily painted to accommodate your child?s taste. Along with oak, this is a wood that is sturdy and will give you years of service. It can also help your child?s room to be stylish and cozy at the same time. Finding the best in furnishings for all the bedrooms in your house need not be difficult, with all the options provided by furniture stores online.

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Microsoft unveils tablet to compete with iPad

Microsoft Corp. has unveiled a Windows-powered tablet computer called Surface, shifting its recent strategy of focusing on software rather than machines in a bid to go head-to-head with Apple Inc.'s?

The device has a 10.6-inch display and will run the latest version of Microsoft?s operating system, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said at an event at Milk Studios in Los Angeles. Surface's cover serves as a full keyboard with a track pad.

The tablet will be available later this year, company officials say.

Microsoft, the world's largest software company, operates a major data center in San Antonio.

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Pope comments on liturgical renewal, sex-abuse crisis, in final ...

CWN - June 18, 2012

In a message to the final session of the 50th International Eucharistic Congress, which closed in Dublin on June 18, Pope Benedict XVI spoke on the intent of Vatican II to promote ?the full and active participation of the faithful in the Eucharistic sacrifice.?

Observing that the Church is now marking the 50th anniversary of the opening of Vatican II, the Pope said that in the intervening years, ?it is clear that a great deal has been achieved; but it is equally clear that there have been many misunderstandings and irregularities? regarding liturgical renewal. Today, he said, ?we must learn to recognize anew the mysterious presence of the Risen Lord, which alone can give breadth and depth to our life.?

In his address, delivered in a videotaped message, the Pope appealed directly to the faith of the Irish people, implicitly recognizing that their ties to the Church has been tested by recent scandals. He said:

Ireland has been shaped by the Mass at the deepest level for centuries, and by its power and grace generations of monks, martyrs and missionaries have heroically lived the faith at home and spread the Good News of God?s love and forgiveness well beyond your shores. You are the heirs to a Church that has been a mighty force for good in the world, and which has given a profound and enduring love of Christ and His blessed Mother to many, many others.

In the sex-abuse scandal, the Pope said, that long history of faith has been ?shaken in an appalling way by the revelation of sins committed by priests and consecrated persons against people entrusted to their care.? He said that it is difficult to understand how people who received the sacraments regularly could commit such grievous sins. ?Yet evidently,? he said, ?there Christianity was no longer nourished by joyful encounter with Jesus Christ: it had become merely a matter of habit.?

?The work of the Council was really meant to overcome this form of Christianity and to rediscover the faith as a deep personal friendship with the goodness of Jesus Christ,? the Pope remarked.

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