No. 6 2008
contents

LETTERS
Kampala, Macerata, Boston…
edited by Paola Bergamini

close-up
Charity at work
The Solidarity Banks
A Gesture That Opens to the Mystery
by Stefano Filippi
> Maurizio Motolese Speaks
Welfare Can Never
Replace Solidarity
by Paolo Perego
> A Real Interest in People’s Good
by Bernhard Scholz

society
The Risk of Faith
Cardinal Zen Speaks
It Is Possible to Live This Way, even in China
edited by Riccardo Piol
> The History of a Presence
> Going Beyond the Great Wall
by Luca Doninelli

Cl
Education
Fr. Carron’s Meeting with the Teachers
Darkness and the Lighter
by Paola Bergamini

Learning from History
Kenya Starts Anew from Saint Benedict
by Nunzia Capriglione

culture
Debate
The Utopia of a Hope
Uprooted from Tradition
by John Waters

chURCH
The Paulin Year
In the Footsteps of St. Paul
by José Miguel García
> Lives Consecrated
to Keeping a Presence
by Riccardo Piol

New World
National CLU Vacation, 2008
Who Is This Man?
by Francesca Fornasini

Issues of the 2008 Presidential Elections
The Risk of Finance
by John Berchet
> Culture
“Looking for the Same Things”
Indy’s Back
by John Touhey
> An Encounter with Etsuro Sotoo
by Michael Patrick

inside america
Dispelling the Fog
by Lorenzo Albacete

EDITORIAL
The One Who Makes Christianity