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LEAD STORY
Marian Doctrine Conflict Part of Growing Dismay by Robert Moynihan
NEWS
VATICAN/Curia Reform: Will 2020 Be a Good Year? by Andrea Gagliarducci (ACI)
VATICAN/Cardinal Sodano: Sixty Years at the Vatican by Luis Badilla (Il Sismografo)
NIGERIA/Christians in peril: Islamic groups murdered over 1,000 in 2019 by John Owen Nwachukwu
VATICAN/Cardinal Koch on Universal Primacy by Peter Anderson
GERMANY/Pope Benedict starts Catholic journalism foundation by CNA
FRANCE/Notre Dame Cathedral empty for first Christmas in 216 years by Huffingtonpost.fr
CHRISTMAS AT THE VATICAN/Pope Francis Addresses the Roman Curia by Sandro Magister
SPECIAL SECTION: OUR “TOP TEN” PEOPLE OF 2019
Ten people who are witnessing to the truth by ITV Staff
1. Svetlana Kasyan: “Love and Art should reign again”
2. Fr. Jean-Marc Fournier: “We need tangible signs of faith”
3. Alexander Tschugguel: “To defend God and His teaching”
4. Jakub Baryla: “Our holy faith commands us to counteract evil deeds”
5. Fr. Csaba Böjte: “To free my fellows from the chains of fear and little faith”
6. Kanye West: “I’m a son of God. I’m free.”
7. Viktor Orbán: “Hungary before everything, God above us all”
8. Katie Ascough, Niamh Uí Bhriain and Cora Sherlock: “Our cause will never be defeated”
9. Bishop Vincent Guo Xijin: “I am ready to face the persecution”
10. Archbishop Emery Kabongo: “The African is a very spiritual and believing person”
CULTURE
INTERVIEW/Papal Nuncio to Albania, Archbishop Charles Brown: Part 3 by Barbara Middleton
FOOTSTEPS ON THE WAY/Domenico de Cese and the Holy Face of Manoppello by Tamara Klapatch
INTERVIEW/Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, Part 1 by Jan Bentz
URBI ET ORBI: CATHOLICISM AND ORTHODOXY
Icon/Peter’s Odd Prayer by Robert Wiesner
Spirituality/”He who follows, grows and becomes free”
East-West Watch/Athens and Constantinople by Peter Anderson
News from the East by Becky Derks
FEATURES
Art/Raphael and His Friends from Urbino by Lucy Gordan
Latin/“There’s no J in Latin, Your Holiness” by John Byron Kuhner
Vatican Watch/A day-by-day chronicle of Vatican events: November and December by Becky Derks
People/Archbishop Paglia; martyred Brother; Venerable Sheen; new ambassador by Becky Derks
Food for Thought/Prosecco! by Mother Martha