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| The Word From Rome |
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| Archive
of columns from Volume IV |
| DATE | Vol. | No. | Title |
| August 26, 2005 | 4 | 45 | Report from Rimini: Italy's biggest public event; What Comunione e Liberazione is; CL in the USA; Spreading the movement; Cardinal Simonis of Holland; A report from Kenya; Women and Islam |
| August 18-21, 2005 | * | * | World Youth Day Coverage from Cologne, Germany |
| August 12, 2005 | 4 | 44 | World Youth Day: Benedict XVI on the road; WYD’s importance; ecumenical and interfaith opportunities: Protestant; Jewish; Muslim |
| August 5, 2005 | 4 | 43 | Follow up news: Schönborn and evolution, Vatican-Israeli diplomacy; Diverse views of Benedict's first 100 days; Lessons in leadership from John Paul II |
| July 29, 2005 | 4 | 42 | The Vatican and Islam; Vatican-Israeli relations boil over; World Youth Day in Cologne … and then Sydney; The 10th anniversary of We Are Church; Feeding the hungry; Waiting for an ambassador |
| July 22, 2005 | 4 | 41 | Schönborn and science vs. theology; Questions to an academician, an astrophysicist and a biochemist; CDF acts against a religious founder; Hard times at British embassy; In defense of Harry Potter |
| July 15, 2005 | 4 | 40 | Benedict's busman's holiday; The papal entourage; Communion and Liberation; Vatican finances; Cardinal Sodano on terrorism; Ratzinger homestead up for sale |
| July 8, 2005 | 4 | 39 | 'Benchmarks of Catholicity' for universities; Holy See finances in the black; Document on homosexuals in seminary in pope's hands; Anti-poverty rally blessed; Ecumenical outreach: Moscow and Istanbul; Preparing the synod on Eucharist; Bombing in London |
| July 1, 2005 | 4 | 38 | Americans receive palliums; Interviews with Archbishops Gregory and Fiorenza; Benedict extends a hand to Constantinople; John Paul's beatification opens; Scripture and hermeneutics seminar; Two books of interest |
| June 24, 2005 | 4 | 37 | A church more willing to fight back; Cardinal Angelo Scola, an interesting intellectual; Christians and Islam; Christians in Sudan; A new history of Vatican II |
| June 17, 2005 | 4 | 36 | Benedict XVI wins round in culture wars; results explained; next round in Spain; Vatican and Israel on taxing church property; pope meets with WCC head; Regina Mundi, early theology school for women, closes; justice and peace council applauds debt forgiveness. |
| June 10, 2005 | 4 | 35 |
Benedict on the family; Radcliffe on multi-religious Europe; Benedict meets with Jewish leaders; Archbishop Chaput on anti-Semitism; A raucous seminar on church history; One note on Fr. Maciel; Speaking engagements |
| June 3, 2005 | 4 | 34 |
Benedict the teacher; The five 'big ideas' of the Ratzinger pontificate; Benedict the governor; Benedict the collegial pope; Benedict the sanctifier |
| May 31, 2005 | 4 | 33 |
Pope Benedict's first trip outside Rome: Talking with an Orthodox priest in Bari; St. Nicholas' bones; Benedict at the eucharistic congress; A political subtext; Panels on women, lay movements and social action |
| May 27, 2005 | 4 | 32 |
Chronology of the latest news about Maciel; Peace, justice and the liturgy; Benedict's first major public events; Kasper on Eucharistic unity |
| May 20, 2005 | 4 | 31 |
Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ; Interview with the Roman-Anglican commission cochair; Next U.S. ambassador to Holy See named; Reactions to Levada's appointment |
| May 13, 2005 | 4 | 30 |
Levada to head Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; Tom Reese and America; Benedict reaches out to China, Vietnam and Judaism; Anglican-Catholic relations; Changes in the beatification ceremony; Beatification can begin for Pope John Paul II |
| April 26, 2005 | 4 | 29 |
Pondering the first draft of history: Reflections on covering one pope's funeral and another's election |
| April 2-26, 2005 | * | * |
Coverage of the papal funeral and election of a new pope |
| April 1, 2005 | 4 | 28 |
Stafford on pope’s health; feeding tubes; comparison with Schiavo case; the ‘Gang of Four’; the new feminism; Jesuit Fr. John O’Donnell, dead at 60 |
| March 25, 2005 | 4 | 27 | The rumors were exaggerated; A talk with experts in Parkinson's disease; Long Island Voice of the Faithful; The retired Melkite archbishop of Galilee and Arab Christians; A short note on Terri Schiavo |
| March 18, 2005 | 4 | 26 | Papabili at an 'agenda-setting moment'; Jesuit Fr. Michael Buckley on relations with non-Christian religions; Caritas in North Korea; Jack Miles on religion and foreign policy |
| March 11, 2005 | 4 | 25 | Cardinal George discusses liturgy and translations; Stem cell research and debating 'embryo adoption'; Europe and the election of the next pope; The pope is a rock star? |
| March 4, 2005 | 4 | 24 | The Vatican and a lawsuit; The meaning of John Paul's suffering; Talking with Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor; Vatican-Israeli negotiations proceed; John Paul's Memory and Identity |
| February 25, 2005 | 4 | 23 | My advice to the Vatican: Visit the L.A. Religious Ed Congress; Report card on ecclesiology; World Youth Day in Cologne; An appreciation of Fr. Luigi Giussani; The 'three-kick rule' |
| February 18, 2005 | 4 | 22 | The pope's prognosis; Would he, could he resign?; The annulment instruction; Condi Rice at the Vatican; Jesuit Haight barred from teaching Catholic theology |
| February 11, 2005 | 4 | 21 | The pope's prognosis; Would he, could he resign?; The annulment instruction; Condi Rice at the Vatican; Jesuit Haight barred from teaching Catholic theology |
| February 4, 2005 | 4 | 20 | Covering the pope's hospitalization; U.S.-Vatican commission on sex abuse norms meets; Religion in the public square; Combating 'Christianophobia'; Italy debates artificial reproduction |
| January 28, 2005 | 4 | 19 | Week of Prayer for Christian Unity; 'One strike' abuse policy being looked at; Condom discussion takes nuance and clarity; A 'war between the generations'; The little Madonna of Civitavecchia |
| January 20, 2005 | 4 | 18 | Christians in Iraq; The pope and rabbis; More on Pius XII and Catholic-Jewish dialogue; Spain stirs debate on condoms |
| January 14, 2005 | 4 | 17 | The pope on food; Interview with departing ambassador; Buttiglione, Europe's anti-abortion politician; Pius XII, the Holocaust and the Jews; Remembering Cardinal Jan Schotte |
| January 7, 2005 | 4 | 16 | Remembering Jacques Dupuis; John Paul's holidays; Cardinal Diogini Tettamanzi under fire; More on Fr. Marcial Maciel |
| December 3, 2004 | 4 | 15 | Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor on ecumenism; Mega-trends in global Catholicism; Revising sex abuse norms; The Holy See and the Legionaries of Christ; Diplomacy in the cause of religious freedom |
| November 26, 2004 | 4 | 14 | The World Congress on Consecrated Life; Debate over norms governing cases of priest sexual abuse reopens; Personnel changes and coming changes; Spanish cultural wars; Comments on decentralization |
| November 19, 2004 | 4 | 13 | Looking again at who's in charge; Meeting the Patriarch of Constantinople; Reflections on truthfulness; A 'state of the union' on ecumemism; The importance of George as vice president |
| November 12, 2004 | 4 | 12 | Post election water-cooler talk; A conversation with Archbishop William Levada; The Year of the Eucharist; A Focolare conference; Dialogue with Islam |
| November 5, 2004 | 4 | 11 | Rome's Lay Centre; Discussing relations with non-Christian religions; Debating sacramental theology and ecumenical sensitivity; Vox Clara Commission to meet in Rome; John Paul receives Iraq's Ayad Allawi |
| October 29, 2004 | 4 | 10 | Dialoguing with missionaries in San Antonio; More reader responses; Ratzinger on contemporary society; the new Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church |
| October 22, 2004 | 4 | 9 | John Paul opens the Eucharistic Year; Procedural justice under the code; Vatican lecture season opens; Answering e-mails |
| October 15, 2004 | 4 | 8 | John Paul opens the Eucharistic Year; Procedural justice under the code; Vatican lecture season opens; Answering e-mails |
| October 8, 2004 | 4 | 7 | If the Vatican could vote on Nov. 2; Sex abuse looms large in U.S. bishops' ad limina visits; Preview of the World Congress on Consecrated Life; Austrian update |
| October 1, 2004 | 4 | 6 | Condom debate frustrates; Irish church fails to develop child protection policies; Austrians leaving the church; Benedictines to move into Mater Ecclesiae convent |
| September 24, 2004 | 4 | 5 | World hunger and biotechnology debated; Honors for pro-choice politician; Lefebvrite update; Cardinal Arinze in New York; Sects and 'African Initiated Churches' |
| September 17, 2004 | 4 | 4 | A journey to Africa: confronting AIDS, relations among religions, and the challenges of poverty |
| September 10, 2004 | 4 | 3 | Unpopularity of Bush administration runs deep internationally; The horrors of Belsan; Martino on terrorism; The 'parish priest and Communist mayor'; John Paul's trip to Loreto |
| September 3, 2004 | 4 | 2 | Russian Catholic struggles; Ordinary Orthodox support their leaders' views; Can an icon promote unity? |
| August 27, 2004 | 4 | 1 | Why the transfer in ownership of a Russian icon is a news story; Opposing forces in Italian church try détente; The bottom line at Lourdes |