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Lead Story
by Gerard O'Connell

10

Why Did Ireland Close Its Embassy to the Holy See?

News
by Andrea Gagliarducci

12

Vatican
"An Authority with Competencies to Face the World Crisis"

News
by Sandro Magister

14

Vatican
Too Much Confusion — Bertone Puts the Curia Under Lock and Key

News
by Angela Ambrogetti

16

Vatican
Pope Announces a New Synod

News
by Gerard O'Connell

17

China
A Tale of Two Bishops, Both Chinese

News
by Inside the Vatican staff from wire reportsi

18

Africa
Benedict XVI Visits Benin

News
by Serena Sartini

18

Africa
Interview with Msgr. Jean Salomon Lezoutiè, Bishop of Yopougon, Ivory Coast

News
by Wlodzimierz Redzioch

19

Africa
Interview with Bishop Barthelemy Adoukonou, Secretary of the PC for Culture

News
By Wlodzimierz Redzioch

21

Africa
Interview with Msgr. Jean Marie Mupendawatu, Secretary of the PC for Health Workers

News
by Angela Ambrogetti

22

Italy
Benedict XVI Visits the Abbey of San Bruno in Calabria

News
by Inside the Vatican staff

24

Vatican
Catholics, Jews and Persistent Prejudices

News
by Anna Artymiak

28

Christmas
Little-known Traditions in the Vatican

Special
Texts by R. Moynihan, A. Gagliarducci & S. Magister with A. Carosa. Photos by Grzegorz Galazka

31

October 27, 2011: Benedict XVI in Assisi

Culture
by Anna Artymiak

40

Memory
"Man of God"

Culture
by Lucy Gordan

43

Profile
Joseph Zwilling, Director of Communications Office, Archdiocese of New York

Culture
by Angela Ambrogetti

46

Holy See
Seeing St. Peter's Through Its Mosaics

Columns
by Lucy Gordan

50

Of Books, Art and People
Filippino Lippi and Botticelli in Fifteenth-Century Florence

Columns
by Micaela Biferali

53

When in Rome
Russian Icons in the Pope's Castle

Columns
by Micaela Biferali

54

People
Nominations, Anniversaries, Cases, Events, Movers and Shakers...

Columns
by Micaela Biferali

56

Vatican Watch: October and November
A day-by-day chronicle of Vatican events

Columns
by Paul Haffner

60

Meditation
St. Thomas of Canterbury (December 29)

Columns
by Friar Tuck

62

The Sacred and Profane
Eating in a Cove and Staying Quite Close to Vatican City