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EDITORIAL
Nunc Dimittis by Robert Moynihan, Ph.D.
LEAD STORY
New Book: A major new biography of Pope Benedict XVI, now in English by Edward Pentin (National Catholic Register), interviewing Peter Seewald
NEWS
VATICAN NEWS ITEMS/Pope Francis issues new book, Let Us Dream; U.S. Bishops prepare for Biden presidency; Biden calls Pope Francis; Basketball players visit Pope; abuse trial underway in Vatican City by Inside the Vatican Staff
VATICAN/Lack of clarity on where to go to reach “The Economy of Francesco” by Michael Greaney
HOLY SEE/Vatican finally issues its long-awaited “McCarrick Report” by Inside the Vatican Staff
HOLY SEE/Pope exhorts 13 new cardinals to humility — November 28 consistory by Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service (CNS)
INTERVIEW/Cardinal Pell on prison, the Vatican, and vindication by Nicole Winfield, Associated Press
CHRISTMAS ART ESSAY
CHRISTMAS THOUGHTS/“The Ancient of Days has become an infant” by St. John Chrysostom
CULTURE
DEBATE/The COVID vaccines: how safe? by Dr. Anthony Jay, Ph.D.
ANALYSIS/The Vatican’s New “Global Compact” on Education by Prof. Anthony Esolen, Ph.D.
INTERVIEW/A new Dean at the Angelicum: Sister Helen Alford of South Africa by Dr. Jan Bentz
EDUCATION/A new boys’ high school “prepares the soil” by President Daniel Kerr of St. Martin’s Academy in Fort Scott, Kansas, USA
SCRIPTURE/”Let us be nourished by Mary’s example” by Prof. Anthony Esolen, Magdalen College, New Hampshire, USA
URBI ET ORBI: CATHOLICISM AND ORTHODOXY
Icon/New Church of Sts. Joachim and Anne Opes in Front Royal, Virginia by Robert Wiesner
East-West Watch/Pope Francis and the search for “synodality” by Peter Anderson
News from the East/Ukrainian Orthodox Church commemorated for first time by Becky Derks
FEATURES
LATIN/On the date of Christmas, in Latin… by John Byron Kuhner, Paideia Institute, Rome
Art/The story of Italy’s only Christmas carol by Lucy Gordan
BOOK/Selection from Lord of the World (originally published in 1907) by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson
Vatican Watch/A day-by-day chronicle of Vatican events: October and November by Becky Derks
People/Blessed Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus by Becky Derks
Food for Thought/The Vatican Christmas Cookbook from the Swiss Guards by Mother Martha