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How We Become Christian
by Luigi Giussani

LETTERS
Sacramento, Denver, Pesaro...
edited by Paola Bergamini

Close-up
Benedict XVI
Rediscovering
the Breadth of Reason
by Pigi Colognesi
> Is Reason the Enemy
of the Mystery?
by Javier Prades
> Press release
Carrón: “We Stand by the Pope”

Society
USA / Crossroads Cultural Center
Nihilism:
Clash or Consensus?
by David Galalis

After the cease-fire
Christians in the Middle East
edited by Anna Leonardi
> Beirut Speaking
by Emilio Maiandi
> AVSI:
advocating coexistence
> Jerusalem Speaking
by Marta Zaknoun
> Bethany Speaking
by Samar Sahhar

New World
The Adventure of Discovery
The Infinite Behind the Stars
by Mario Gargantini and Michelle Riconscente

Science
An Inexhaustible Desire
Searching for Reality
by Mario Gargantini
> Communion and Liberation
> Culture
> Book / Hannah Arendt
Attuned to Reality
by Colin Cherico

Cl
La Thuile
Memory: the Method of the Event
> A Son Coming Home
by Etsuro Sotoo
> Leafing Through Traces in Japanese
by Paolo Perego
> A Year of Marriage on the Steppe
edited by Paolo Perego
> The Courage to Face Reality
by Paola Bergamini

Culture
Meeting
Faith and Reality in Rimini
by John Waters

Encounters
Dinner with Tony Hendra
by Michele Cantoni

Inside america
The Road of Reason
by Lorenzo Albacete

EDITORIAL
The Pope is Challenging Us
All on the Proper Use of Reason

“Lady, Your Beauty Seemed to Me Like a Divine Light in My Mind”. (G. Leopardi)
Julian Carron’s talk at the Pastoral Theological Congress, “The transmission of faith inside the family,” on the occasion of the fifth World Meeting of Families with Benedict XVI. Valencia, Spain, July 5, 2006