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Year 15, Number 08

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Lead Story
by John Thavis
10A Diplomatic Incident
The meeting that wasn’t.

News
by Inside the Vatican staff
12USA
Cardinal Bertone at the Knights of Columbus’ 12th annual convention.

News
by Inside the Vatican staff
16World
First reports of the implementation of themotu proprio.

News
by Serena Sartini
19Russia
“I am coming home” — a new archbishop for Moscow.

News
by Serena Sartini
20Italy
The Pope‘s pilgrimage to Italy’s most important Marian shrine.

News
by Angela Ambrogetti, Micaela Biferali, Maurizio Di Giacomo
22Holy See
Will they be cardinals? Part II.

News
by Peter Jan Bogaert
24Belgium
Excert from the book-length interview with Cardinal Danneels.

News
by Fabio Bernabei
26World
Cardinal Barragan on the Catholic Church’s fight against drug addiction.

News
by Micaela Biferali
27Obituaries
Last farewell to Cardinal Angelo Felici and Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger.

Photo Essay
by Angela Ambrogetti and Grzegorz Galazka
28Austria
Benedict XVI’s three-day visit to Vienna and Mariazell, September 7-9.

Culture
by Angela Ambrogetti
34Ambassador
Meeting Oded Ben-Hur, Israeli ambassador to the Holy See.

Culture
by Fabio Bernabei
35Profile
The new head of the Pontifical Council for Culture.

Culture
by Vladimiro Redzioch
36Special Assignment
A walk in the Pope’s summer gardens.


Culture
by Peter Sewald
40Apostolic Palace
An interview with “Herr Praelet”Msgr. Georg Gaenswein.

Columns
by Inside the Vatican staff
47Catechism
On the Incarnation and the Redemption.

Columns
by Fr. Bernard O”Connor
48Roman Reflection
Jesus of Nazareth by the Pope helps us with our spiritual growth (Part II).

Columns
by Lucy Gordan
50Of Books, Art and People
Trier celebrates Constantine the Emperor.

Columns
by Micaela Biferali
53Book Review
Providence — or coincidence?

Columns
by Matthew Friauf
54Vatican Watch: July, August, September
A day-by-day chronicle of Vatican events.

Columns
by Micaela Biferali
59When in Rome
The Pantheon: a nearly “perfect” and quite spectacular building.

Columns
by Fr. Paul Haffner
60Meditation
St. Raphael the Archangel (October 24).

Columns
by Fr. Paul Haffner
62The Sacred and Profane
A Roman restaurant in the heart of the Testaccio Quarter


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