December 2012

Year 20, Number 10

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Editorial by Robert Moynihan	4	Who Is Our King?
Lead Story by Hugh O’Donnell	12	The 25th of December — Pagan Feast or Patristic Tradition?
Lead Story by Inside the Vatican staff	16	Vatican The Pope’s New Book on Jesus
News by Cindy Wooden	18	Vatican Vatileaks Trial, Part #2
News by Francis X. Rocca	20	US Election Four Years Later, Vatican Takes a Different Approach Toward Obama
News by Carol Glatz	21	Vatican Faith, Science Must Cooperate to Protect People, Planet, Pope Says
Photo Essay Text by Francis X. Rocca Photos by Grzegorz Galazka	22	Vatican A Small Consistory to Create Six New Cardinals Sidebar: Homily by Benedict XVI for the Creation of Six New Cardinals
News by Wlodzimierz Redzioch	26	Vatican 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	28	Synod “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	33	Synod Reflections after the Synod
Dossier By Angela Ambrogetti	35	Synod “The Holy Spirit Helps Us and Shows Us the Right Way”
News by Anna Artymiak	36	Vatican Cardinal Timothy Dolan Takes Possession of His Titular Church in Rome
Culture by Cindy Wooden and Anna Artymiak	39	Vatican 500th Anniversary of Sistine Chapel Ceiling Frescoes Sidebar: An interview with Dr. Antonio Paolucci, head of the Vatican Museums
Culture by Viktoria Somogyi	42	Diplomacy The Philippines: A Canonization and a New Cardinal
Culture by Rupert J. Ederer	44	Economics Dissent from Catholic Social Teaching: A Study in Irony
Culture by Cardinal Giuseppe Siri	47	Reflection ”Death and the Immensity That Awaits Us”
Culture by Wlodzimierz Redzioch	48	Memory My Friend Who Became the Pope
Columns by Lucy Gordan	52	Of Books, Art and People His Eminence Dominik Cardinal Duka of Prague
Columns by Micaela Biferali	56	Vatican Watch October and November: A Day-By-Day Chronicle of Vatican Events
Columns by Anna Artymiak	59	Obituary Gregor Volken
Columns by Paul Haffner	60	Meditation The Christmas Novena
Columns by Friar Tuck	62	The Sacred and Profane Hospitality Not Far From St. Peter’s
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