{"id":33120,"date":"2018-03-27T11:26:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T11:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimdev8.com\/?page_id=33120"},"modified":"2018-03-28T11:08:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T11:08:03","slug":"december-2011","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/insidethevatican.com\/back-issues\/2011-back-issues\/december-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"2011<\/a>

Year 19, Number 10<\/p><\/div>\n

Yes, I want to read this issue. Please send me the December 2011 issue today.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Lead Story<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Gerard O’Connell<\/span><\/td>\n		10<\/strong><\/td>\nWhy Did Ireland Close Its Embassy to the Holy See?<\/strong>
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News
\nby Andrea Gagliarducci <\/span><\/td>\n		12<\/strong><\/td>\nVatican
\n<\/strong>“An Authority with Competencies to Face the World Crisis”
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News
\nby <\/span>Sandro Magister<\/span><\/td>\n		14<\/strong><\/td>\nVatican
\n<\/strong>Too Much Confusion \u2014 Bertone Puts the Curia Under Lock and Key<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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News
\nby Angela Ambrogetti<\/span><\/td>\n		16 <\/strong><\/td>\nVatican
\n<\/strong>Pope Announces a New Synod<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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News
\nby Gerard O’Connell<\/span><\/td>\n		17<\/strong><\/td>\nChina
\n<\/strong>A Tale of Two Bishops, Both Chinese<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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News
\nby Inside the Vatican staff from wire reportsi<\/span><\/td>\n		18<\/strong><\/td>\nAfrica
\n<\/strong>Benedict XVI Visits Benin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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News
\nby Serena Sartini<\/span><\/td>\n		18<\/strong><\/td>\nAfrica
\n<\/strong>Interview with Msgr. Jean Salomon Lezouti\u00e8, Bishop of Yopougon, Ivory Coast<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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News<\/span><\/strong>
\nby Wlodzimierz Redzioch<\/span><\/td>\n		19<\/strong><\/td>\nAfrica
\n<\/strong>Interview with Bishop Barthelemy Adoukonou, Secretary of the PC for Culture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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News<\/span><\/strong>
\nBy Wlodzimierz Redzioch<\/span><\/td>\n		21<\/strong><\/td>\nAfrica
\n<\/strong>Interview with Msgr. Jean Marie Mupendawatu, Secretary of the PC for Health Workers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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News<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Angela Ambrogetti<\/span><\/td>\n		22<\/strong><\/td>\nItaly
\n<\/strong>Benedict XVI Visits the Abbey of San Bruno in Calabria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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News<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Inside the Vatican staff<\/span><\/td>\n		24<\/strong><\/td>\nVatican<\/strong>
\nCatholics, Jews and Persistent Prejudices<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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News<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Anna Artymiak<\/span><\/td>\n		28<\/strong><\/td>\nChristmas<\/strong>
\nLittle-known Traditions in the Vatican<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Special<\/strong><\/span>
\nTexts by R. Moynihan, A. Gagliarducci & S. Magister with A. Carosa. Photos by Grzegorz Galazka<\/span><\/td>\n		31<\/strong><\/td>\nOctober 27, 2011: Benedict XVI in Assis<\/strong>i<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Culture<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Anna Artymiak<\/span><\/td>\n		40<\/strong><\/td>\nMemory<\/strong>
\n“Man of God”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Culture<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Lucy Gordan<\/span><\/td>\n		43<\/strong><\/td>\nProfile<\/strong>
\nJoseph Zwilling, Director of Communications Office, Archdiocese of New York<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Culture<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Angela Ambrogetti<\/span><\/td>\n		46<\/strong><\/td>\nHoly See<\/strong>
\nSeeing St. Peter’s Through Its Mosaics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columns<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Lucy Gordan<\/span><\/td>\n		50<\/strong><\/td>\nOf Books, Art and People
\n<\/strong>Filippino Lippi and Botticelli in Fifteenth-Century Florence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columns<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Micaela Biferali<\/span><\/td>\n		53<\/strong><\/td>\nWhen in Rome
\n<\/strong>Russian Icons in the Pope’s Castle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columns<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Micaela Biferali<\/span><\/td>\n		54<\/strong><\/td>\nPeople<\/strong>
\nNominations, Anniversaries, Cases, Events, Movers and Shakers…<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columns
\nby Micaela Biferali<\/span><\/td>\n		56<\/strong><\/td>\nVatican Watch: October and November
\n<\/strong>A day-by-day chronicle of Vatican events<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columns
\nby Paul Haffner<\/span><\/td>\n		60<\/strong><\/td>\nMeditation<\/strong>
\nSt. Thomas of Canterbury (December 29)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Columns
\nby Friar Tuck<\/span><\/td>\n		62<\/strong><\/td>\nThe Sacred and Profane
\n<\/strong>Eating in a Cove and Staying Quite Close to Vatican City<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"ArrowDLeft\"<\/a>
\nNovember 2011 <\/a><\/td>\n		\"ArrowDRight\"<\/a><\/p>\n

January 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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