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EDITORIAL
Become a “Friend of Lebanon” by Dr. Robert Moynihan
LEAD STORIES
VATICAN-CHINA/The Vatican-China agreement is up for a September renewal… by Christina Deardurff
NEWS: “We need to keep praying” by Theresa Li, special ITV correspondent from China
NEWS: Pope Francis starts fund for unemployed; Bolivian diplomat chosen for Vatican post; the meaning of the Hagia Sophia becoming a mosque by Christina Deardurff and Hannah Brockhaus (CNA)
DEBATE: Vaccines using aborted human babies by Stefanie Stark, ITV special correspondent, interviews Dr. Theresa Deisher
DOSSIER
VATICAN II/Do we have a “parallel Church”? by Christina Deardurff
VATICAN II/Was Vatican II really the “seed of error”? by Dr. John Cavadini of the University of Notre Dame
VATICAN II/De-throning Vatican II by Dr. Anthony Esolen of Magdalen College in New Hampshire
VATICAN II/Vatican II and the work of the Spirit by Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM Capuchin
CULTURE
DEBATE/New openings to make Masonic membership possible? by Robert Moynihan
SAINTS/The cause of John Paul II’s parents begins by Anna Artymiak, ITV special correspondent
SCRIPTURE/The quality of mercy by Prof. Anthony Esolen, Magdalen College, New Hampshire, USA
EDUCATION/Australia’s groundbreaking Catholic college by Dr. Paul Morrisey, President of Campion College, Sydney, Australia
OBITUARY/Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, older brother of Pope Benedict, dies at 96 by Deborah Castellano Lubov (Zenit), interviewing Dr. Michael Hesemann
URBI ET ORBI: CATHOLICISM AND ORTHODOXY
Icon/Tranquility or strife? by Robert Wiesner
Spirituality/“Initiated into truth” By Father El Meskeen (1919-2006)
East-West Watch/Social ethos of the Orthodox Church by Peter Anderson
News from the East/Converting the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul into a mosque by Becky Derks
FEATURES
LATIN/Profile of a great Latinist: Cardinal Antonio Bacci (1885-1971) by John Byron Kuhner, Paideia Institute, Rome
Art/Who should own Italy’s religious art? Church or state? by Lucy Gordan
BOOK/Selection from Lord of the World (originally published in 1907) by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson
Vatican Watch/A day-by-day chronicle of Vatican events: May, June, July by Becky Derks
People/Miracle approved for Fr. McGivney cause; shake-up at Bose monastery by Becky Derks
Food for Thought/“True Italian hospitality”: An oasis in Trastevere by Mother Martha