Page One
Who Is our Lady?
Notes from a talk at the Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin of Caravaggio, June 3, 1982
by Luigi Giussani

EDITORIAL
“What Are You Afraid of?”

Close-up
Holy Land
Building Bridges of Lasting Friendship
by Giorgio Paolucci
John Allen
“He Speaks with Centuries in Mind”
by Marco Bardazzi
Press Review
Something Beyond all the Analysis

Italy
After the Earthquake
The Budding of Hope
by Paolo Perego
The Embrace From Uganda
“Father Giussani’s Tribe”

Society
Subsidiarity “It’s the Economy of Heaven”
by Fabrizio Rossi

Cl life
Much More than Just Four Friends in a Bar…
by Stefano Filippi

New world
Church and State
What We Hold Most Dear
by Santiago Ramos
Encounters  
Inter-Religious or Inter-Cultural?
by Suzanne Tanzi

Cl life
Africa
2,000 Shillings for the One Thing Necessary
by Paola Ronconi

Art
Francis Bacon
Appearance and the Mystery  
by Giuseppe Frangi

Culture
Meeting: A Foretaste
Knowledge Is Always an Event
by Carlo Dignola
Rimini, August, 23-29
Thirty Years Of Wideranging Dialogue and Culture

BENEDict XVI
“Amid Contradictions, the Good News"

Columns
Letters
edited by Paola Bergamini
The Facts Answer
by John Waters
Inside America
by Lorenzo Albacete