Different Focus for Cardinal Cardinal Ratzinger also focused on reining in national bishops' conferences, several of which, independent of Rome, had begun confronting the sexual abuse crisis and devising policies to address it in their countries.
Even China, whose atrocious air the World Health Organisation says killed more than a million people in 2012, has begun to confront its crisis.
But unlike many of the countries in the world that have already begun confronting obesity, South Africa is already facing a full-fledged health crisis.
The five-member panel of energy specialists, which has a staff of 61 and an annual budget of about $7 million, has begun to confront the company's executives over where and how they drill for oil.
The Obama administration has a major modernization program underway, focused on making the nuclear arsenal more reliable, though it has begun to confront the huge cost of upgrading bombers and submarines.
Faced with an opponent who has managed to deflect questions about his character and trustworthiness, Gov. George W. Bush has shifted tactics and begun confronting Vice President Al Gore head-on over the issues, an area long considered to be Mr. Gore's greatest strength.
But Chileans have begun publicly confronting the country's history of torture only in the last couple of years, after General Pinochet, who remained head of the army until 1998, was first arrested on human rights charges in London.
