May 2012

Year 20, Number 5

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Editorial by Robert Moynihan	4	A Troubling Case
Lead Story Inside the Vatican	10	Seven Years of Pope Benedict: April 19, 2005-April 19, 2012
News By Robert Moynihan	23	Vatican/Society of St. Pius X: Return to Rome, or Not?
News by Sandro Magister	24	Vatican/The Strange Mass That Concerns the Pope
News by William Doino, Jr.	25	US/Battle between US Bishops and Obama on Church Freedom
Photo Essay by Inside the Vatican staff	26	Holy Week and Easter in Rome, 2012 –Benedict’s Extraordinary Call to Holiness –Pope Bendict’s Recent Homilies –Celebration of the Lord’s Passion –“Let There Be Light”
Culture by Angela Ambrogetti; Alberto Carosa; Micaela Biferali	38	Exhibit/Bible Exhibition Verbum Domini Sidebar: Senior Cardinal Conveys Pope’s Thanks and Appreciation for“All-Time Best” Bible Exhibition Sidebar: God’s Word: Exhibit Shows Bible’s Evolution, Beauty, Endurance
Culture by Wlodzimierz Redzioch	46	Anniversary/Waiting for John Paul II’s Canonization
Columns by Lucy Gordon	48	Of Books, Art and People/Jacopo Comin, Last Great Painter of the Italian Renaissance
Columns by Cindy Wooden	51	Obituary/Cardinal Daoud, Former Syriac Catholic Patriarch, Dies at 81
Columns by Viktoria Somogyi	52	Diplomacy/Interview with Liechtenstein’s Ambassador
Columns by Micaela Biferali	54	People/Nominations, Anniversaries, Cases, Events, Movers and Shakers…
Columns by Micaela Biferali	56	Vatican Watch/March and April: A Day-By-Day Chronicle of Vatican Events
Columns by Paul Haffner	60	Meditation/Feast of Our Lady of Pompei (May 8)
Columns by Friar Tuck	62	The Sacred and the Profane/Hostaria Farnese and St. George Hotel, in the Heart of Rome
April 2012		June-July 2012