contents No. 6 2005

Page one
Life’s Vocation
by Luigi Giussani

LETTERS
Minnesota, Adria, Buenos Aires...
edited by Paola Bergamini

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Desire
For Less than Everything,
It Isn’t Worth It
> Forum. Albacete and Weiler
The Dictatorship of Desires
and the Experience of Truth
> Testimonies. Vittadini
Along Otherwise Impossible Paths
The Adventure of a Statistician
by Paola Bergamini

society
Kenya
Nairobi Is Back at Teaching
by John Njoroge

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Brazil
The Rebirth of the Person in the Favelas
by Riccardo Piol
> Testimony
“Something Was Missing...”
From Homes to Community
by Cleuza Ramos

Fraternity 2005
Hope Does not Disappoint
The Beauty of a Heritage
by Alberto Savorana
> Message of Benedict XVI

Giving your life. USA
An Italian in America,
and the Parable of the Talents
by Renzo Canetta
> Testimony
That Unexpected Gift
by Rosalba Armando

Vacation
A Splendid Summer and the
Encounter of a Life
by Paola Ronconi
> The Time of Freedom
by Luigi Giussani

church
The Ideal vs. Dreams
Hope Is a Locus
by Alfonso Carrasco Rouco
> A Companionship on the Road
that Brings You Closer to the Origin
by Giuseppe Frangi

document
Christ Is Truly Present
Among Us. He Grasps Us to Make
Us Assimilate Him
by Benedict XVI

INSIDE america
It Was About 4 pm
by Lorenzo Albacete

EDITORIAL
The Energy of the Ideal

New World
In Defense of Reason and Reality
edited by Michelle Riconscente
> Half Lives
by Thomas D. Sullivan
> Communion and Liberation
> Culture