December2012issue

Year 20, Number 10

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Editorial
by Robert Moynihan
4Who Is Our King?

Lead Story
by Hugh O’Donnell
12The 25th of December — Pagan Feast or Patristic Tradition?

Lead Story
by Inside the Vatican staff
16Vatican
The Pope’s New Book on Jesus

News
by Cindy Wooden
18Vatican
Vatileaks Trial, Part #2

News
by Francis X. Rocca
20US Election
Four Years Later, Vatican Takes a Different Approach Toward Obama

News
by Carol Glatz
21Vatican
Faith, Science Must Cooperate to Protect People, Planet, Pope Says

Photo Essay
Text by Francis X. Rocca
Photos by Grzegorz Galazka
22Vatican
A Small Consistory to Create Six New Cardinals
Sidebar: Homily by Benedict XVI for the Creation of Six New Cardinals

News
by Wlodzimierz Redzioch
26Vatican
Bringing the Malankara Church to the Attention of the Catholic World
Sidebar: His Beatitude Introduces the Syro- Malankara Church to Our Readers

Dossier
by Cindy Wooden
28Synod
“Faith in Jesus Means Being Optimistic About the Future”
Sidebar: Pope Benedict’s Homily at the Concluding Mass of the Synod

Dossier
by Paolo Ordanza and Cindy Wooden
33Synod
Reflections after the Synod

Dossier
By Angela Ambrogetti
35Synod
“The Holy Spirit Helps Us and Shows Us the Right Way”

News
by Anna Artymiak
36Vatican
Cardinal Timothy Dolan Takes Possession of His Titular Church in Rome

Culture
by Cindy Wooden and Anna Artymiak
39Vatican
500th Anniversary of Sistine Chapel Ceiling Frescoes
Sidebar: An interview with Dr. Antonio Paolucci, head of the Vatican Museums

Culture
by Viktoria Somogyi
42Diplomacy
The Philippines: A Canonization and a New Cardinal

Culture
by Rupert J. Ederer
44Economics
Dissent from Catholic Social Teaching: A Study in Irony

Culture
by Cardinal Giuseppe Siri
47Reflection
”Death and the Immensity That Awaits Us”

Culture
by Wlodzimierz Redzioch
48Memory
My Friend Who Became the Pope

Columns
by Lucy Gordan
52Of Books, Art and People
His Eminence Dominik Cardinal Duka of Prague

Columns
by Micaela Biferali
56Vatican Watch
October and November: A Day-By-Day Chronicle of Vatican Events

Columns
by Anna Artymiak
59Obituary
Gregor Volken

Columns
by Paul Haffner
60Meditation
The Christmas Novena

Columns
by Friar Tuck
62The Sacred and Profane
Hospitality Not Far From St. Peter’s

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November 2012

ArrowDRight

January 2013