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EDITORIAL

Rome Turns a Year Older by Robert Moynihan

LEAD STORY

Pope Francis hosts a curious meeting of global capitalists at the Vatican by Thomas Storck and ITV staff 

ANALYSIS

WOMEN/Should more women be appointed to Vatican posts? by Prof. Jane Adolphe, an official at the Holy See for 10 years

APOSTOLIC JOURNEY

IRAQ/Pope Francis, despite dangers, visits troubled Iraq for four days in March by ITV staff

PHOTO ESSAY/EASTER 2021

Pope at Easter Vigil: “Christ, Alive Today, Always Helps Begin Anew” by Robin Gomes

The Pope’s homily for the Easter Vigil: “Let us follow Him into Galilee” by Pope Francis

Pope Francis Celebrates Mass on Easter Sunday by Devin Watkins

FEATURES

INTERVIEW/Cardinal Francis Arinze, an “elder statesman” of the Church by Barbara Middleton 

COMMENTARY/The Catholics of Germany go “rogue.” What will Rome do? by Jan Bentz

SCIENCE/The Shroud of Turin: The medieval dating is doubtful by James Bertrand

SAINTS/St. Isidore of Seville Pope St. John Paul II made him the Patron Saint of the internetby ITV staff

OPEN LETTER/Moral Obligation to Vaccinate? By ITV Staff

THE YEAR OF ST. JOSEPH

REFLECTION/St. Joseph and the “final battle” over marriage and the family by Mark Drogin

CULTURE

LATIN/The world’s “best Latin teacher”: the late Fr. Reginald Foster, RIP by John Kuhner

SCRIPTURE/The Poet’s Ear: Scripture’s language holds meaning if we listen by Prof. Anthony Esolen 

EDUCATION/Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio, USA by Dr. Timothy Collins, President of Walsh University 

URBI ET ORBI: CATHOLICISM AND ORTHODOXY

Icon/The Maternity of St. Anna, mother of the Virgin Mary by Robert Wiesner

East-West Watch/Marian dogmas and the Orthodox by Peter Anderson

News from the East/Hilarion on dialogue with the Catholic Church; Serbia has a new Patriarch: Porphyry succeeds Irenaeus, who died in November by Becky Derks 

FEATURES

ART/Napoleon: An exhibit in Rome on the great French conqueror of Italy by Lucy Gordan 

BOOK/Continuing excerpts from the prophetic 1907 novel Lord of the World by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson

VATICAN WATCH/A day-by-day chronicle of Vatican events: February and March by Becky Derks

PEOPLE/New head for institute on the family; Pope backs new prior of Bose by Becky Derks 

FOOD FOR THOUGHT/Three new books in English about Italian cuisine! by Mother Martha