Contents N. 10 - 2003

PAGE ONE Oboedientia et Pax by Luigi Giussani LETTERS Milan, Rio de Janeiro, Kentucky... Happy Birthday, Fr Giussani! CLOSE-UP Fideism, Gnosticism, Spiritualism, Clericalism, Alienation The Invisible Enemies. Yet Tangible edited by Maurizio Crippa > Those who…  Are only an Illusion > Those who… Know it All > Those who… Happiness > Those who… The Rules > Those whom… Nothingness > Paris Flash Mob... French Style by Silvio Guerra Our Lady The Method We Need for Familiarity with Christ > On Fr Giussani’s Letter to the Fraternity, June 22, 2003 SOCIETY AVSI Tents 2003-2004 Training and Education CL School of Community A Presence that Moves SCIENCE The Stars and the Universe as Seen from the Cloister by Marco Bersanelli Greece School of Community with NATO by Rosaria and Nico Gutzamanis CULTURE Books Full of Hands by Carlo Dignola CHURCH Former Soviet Union. Kiev:  The Miracle of Finding Themselves Together by Giovanna Parravicini > The Pope’s Message Setting Out from Christ > To Be a Layperson Is a Vocation by Stanislaw Rylko Mother Teresa A Mother’s Love to Console the Man Jesus by Marina Ricci Testimonies At the School of Mary by Bishop James M. Wingle From Havana  to Baghdad Reconciliation: the Chance for Salvation edited by Alver Metalli The Difficult Building of the Peace edited by Paola Bergamini Astana Kazakhstan: a Laboratory of Peace and Freedom by Edoardo Canetta Daniele Comboni Man’s Plan and God’s Plan by Fr Pietro Tiboni MEETING Canada The Freshness of a New Encounter by Peter Stockland Panorama Letter to the Holy Father by Luigi Giussani INSIDE AMERICA How Many of Us Believe that Miracles are Really Possible? by Lorenzo Albacete EDITORIAL A Date with Nothingness, or with Being