PAGE ONE
The Wellsprings of Gratuitousness
by Julián Carrón

LETTERS
Los Angeles, Bologna, Lima…
edited by Paola Bergamini

CLOSE-UP
Forty years later
What’s Left of 1968
by Lorenzo Albacete
> Who Was the Real Victim?
by Maurizio Maniscalco

CL
University of Notre Dame
Living Campus Life to the Fullest
edited by Alberto Savorana
> The Clu Community
“I Realized that I Needed You” 
by Juliet Joly and Luigi Crema

CULTURE
The Golden Compass
Mind that Compass, It’s Out of Kilter
by Edoardo Rialti
> Opportunities Missed
Meanwhile, Hollywood
Betrays Beowulf

NEW WORLD
Politics and Desire
by Marco Bardazzi
> Protagonists within one’s own reality
True for All the World
by J. Greaney, N. Krause and M. Liddi
> Communion and Liberation
> Culture
> Renoir Exhibit
Limited Landscapes
by Rebecca Vitz Cherico

CHURCH
Santa Maria Maggiore
The Bethlehem of the West
by Cristina Terzaghi

DOCUMENT
Benedict XVI and Jesus of Nazareth (Part 2)
Jesus’ Preaching
by José Miguel García 

INSIDE AMERICA
A Presence, not Utopia
by Lorenzo Albacete

EDITORIAL
Christmas, the Beginning of Hope

INSIDE
Benedict XVI
Spe Salvi
The new encyclical letter of the Pope