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EDITORIAL
Lent: Way of Silence, Way of Sorrow by Robert Moynihan
LEAD STORY
Francis and Benedict: Opponents, or Brothers in Spirit? by Robert Moynihan
NEWS
VATICAN/ Vatican Opens Secret Archives by CNS/ITV Staff
VATICAN/Pope Speaks to US Bishops on Pro-Life, Transgender Issues by Catholic News Service
VATICAN/Pope apologizes for slap… but who is really to blame? by ITV Staff
VATICAN/Ambassadors of the Holy Land by François Vayne (La Stampa)
ROME/OBITUARY Cardinal Prospero Grech, faithful theologian for 60 years by ITV Staff/CNA
DOSSIER:
German Bishops’ “Synodal Path” Sparks Protest by ITV Staff
A Catastrophic Synodal Path by Michael J. Matt
“A Church that No Longer Preaches” by Alexander Tschugguel
“We do not accept revolutionizing the role of women” by Jeanne Smits
The Five Pseudo-Synodal Impostures of the German “Path” by José Antonio Ureta
“You have blood on your hands” by John-Henry Westen
Appeal to German Catholics against the Kirchensteuer (“Church tax”) by Roberto de Mattei
ART ESSAY:
Lent: The Way of Silence, of Sorrow, of Temptation… by ITV Staff
CULTURE
CATHOLIC EDUCATION/”Transforming the World” by Fr. David Pivonka, President, Franciscan University of Steubenville
REPORT/“Is mission without baptism still mission, or omission?” by Alberto Carosa, ITV Staff writer
INTERVIEW/Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, Part 2 by Jan Bentz
INTERIOR CASTLE/Immerse yourself in the “one thing necessary” by A Hermitess
FOOTSTEPS ON THE WAY/The Rome of Hawthorne, Benedict, and Francis by Dr. William Edmund Fahey, President, Thomas More College
URBI ET ORBI: CATHOLICISM AND ORTHODOXY
Icon/St. Marcarius, Lent, Asceticism and Common Sense by Robert Wiesner
Spirituality/”What is prayer?” By Father El Meskeen
East-West Watch/The International Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue by Peter Anderson
News from the East by Becky Derks
FEATURES
LATIN/What is Rome’s greatest Latin inscription? by John Byron Kuhner, Paideia Institute, Rome
Art/”He was sentenced to death”… so Caravaggio escaped to Naples by Lucy Gordan
BOOK/Selection from Lord of the World by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson
Vatican Watch/A day-by-day chronicle of Vatican events: December and January by Becky Derks
People/Cardinal Tagle bids farewell to Manila; four seminarians abducted by Becky Derks
Food for Thought/Rome’s only “native” sweet: Il Maritozzo by Mother Martha