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Year 21, Number 2

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Editorial
by Robert Moynihan		4Signs?
Lead Story
by Inside the Vatican staff, from CNS		10Traditional Values in France?
Lead Story
by Robert Moynihan
11Pope Warns of “Technological Promethieanism”
Lead Story
by Benedict XVI
13“It is a Radical Negation”
News
by Catholic News Service Writers		14Briefs

Vatican / Acceptance of Credit Cards Suspended (Cindy Wooden)
Poland / Retired Polish Primate Cardinal Glemp Dies (CNS)
Vatican / Pope Meets General Secretary of Vietnam’s Communist Party (Carol Glatz)
Vatican / Vatican Official on Armstrong’s Admission (Carol Glatz)
U.S. / Clerics Apologize to Abuse Victims (CNS)
Vatican / Silence and Song Taizé: Youths Make New Year’s Pilgrimage to Rome (Cindy Wooden)

News
by Angela Ambrogetti		18Vatican
A Coin for Two Saints
News
by Robert Moynihan		19Special Feature
A New Foundation to Help Create a Strategic Alliance
News
by Wlodzimierz Redzioch		25Liturgy
A Liturgical Renewal for a New Evangelization
Culture
by Carol Glatz (CNS)		28Vatican / Bishop Fellay’s Two-Hour Talk
Vatican / Fellay: “They Did Not Listen to What We Said”
Culture
by Inside the Vatican staff. CNS and Pope Benedict XVI
Photos by Grzegorz Galazka		34Photo Essay / Consecration of Four Bishops in St. Peter’s Basilica “The Bishop Must Go Ahead”
Photo Essay / Ten Things You Should Know About New Head of Papal Household
Photo Essay / “May Christ’s Light Shine Throughout the World”
Culture
by Wlodzimierz Redzioch		42Islam and Democracy
The Arab Spring: A Shattered Dream of Democracy
Culture
by Fr. Brian W. Harrison, O.S.		46Reflection
The Episcopalian Church’s Approval of Gay “Marriage”
Culture
by Lucy Gordan		48Of Shrines and Sacred Places
Prague’s Church of Our Lady Victorious
Culture
by Anna Artymiak		50Swiss Guard
Interview with Daniel Koch, Major Sergeant of the Swiss Guard
Culture
by Angela Ambrogetti		52Vatican Tradition
Interview with Massimo Sansolini, Papal Sediario
Columns
by Alberto Carosa		54Book
Pius XII and the Preparations for Vatican II
Columns
by Angela Ambrogetti		56Book
Jesus’ Childhood According to Pope Benedict
Columns
by Micaela Biferali		58People
Nominations, Anniversaries, Cases, Events, Movers and Shakers…Nominations – sidebar
Columns
by Micaela Biferali		60Vatican Watch
December and January: A Day-By-Day Chronicle of Vatican Events
Columns
by Paul Haffner		64Meditation
Our Lady of Grace (February 7)
Columns
by Friar Tuck		66The Sacred and Profane
Domus Australia, a Refuge in the Eternal City
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