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Year 13, Number 06

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Lead Story
by Robert Moynihan
8The First 70 Days
Pope Benedict XVI sets his course.

News
byAndrea Tornielli
16The Battle of Italy
A bishop does his duty.
by Kishore Jayabalan18A Europe Neither Liberal nor Christian?
A Catholic view of Europe’s future.
by Inside the Vatican staff20“Sinners under 30 needing to be saved”
The Latin Mass at World Youth Day.
by Alberto Carosa24Rome’s Latin Masses
A map of the Tridentine rite in Rome.
by Andrew Rabel28Anglicans Look Romeward
Reflections on Rome.

Focus
by Fatima Pinheiro
30Portugal’s Ambivalence
Why the country of Our Lady is in crisis.

News
by Inside the Vatican Staff
32Vatican News
China, Kasper, Dziwisz and John Paul II.

Analysis
by Ludwig Ring-Eifel
34Stepping Out of John Paul’s Shadow
And filling John Paul’s shoes.

Profile
by Paul Badde
38Georg Gänswein
The Pope’s private secretary.

Exhibition
by Lucy Gordan
42He Raised 100 Children from the Dead
St. Nicholas of Tolentino.

Interview
by Lucy Gordan
44Preserving the Past
The prefect of the Vatican Library.

Reflection
by George Pat Morse
50Heaven
Can it compete with the world of today?

Status Ecclesiae
by John Mallon
52Lieber Bruder Joseph
Why we rejoiced in Benedict’s election.

Obituary
by Inside the Vatican Staff
53Cardinal Jaime Sin
The “divine commander-in-chief.”

Vatican Watch
by Shena Muldoon
54June
A day-by-day chronicle of Vatican events.

Meditations
by Father Paul Haffner
58Our Lady of Mount Carmel
A poem by Theresa of the Child Jesus.

Restaurants
by Friar Tuck
60A Typical Roman Menu
What Romans eat — and what they pay.


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