"I was trying," he said, "to put the history of mankind in one sentence." Later he said, "I am still trying to do it, but now I want to put it all on the head of a pin."

VOA: special.2010.01.03

The government has responded by saying the case against the American head of Union Carbide at the time of the leak is still open.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

Still,questions remain from his time as head of the Vatican's main office of doctrine and why Cardinal Ratzinger chose not to discipline or defrock the American priest, the Reverend Lawrence Murphy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01