The editorial board of the monthly 30Days in the Church and in the world, directed by Giulio Andreotti, announces the passing away of don Giacomo Tantardini, on Thursday evening, 19 April 2012, in Rome

As editorial of this issue we publish an excerpt from Don Luigi Giussani. The excerpt is taken from Appunti di metodo cristiano [Notes on the Christian Method], published in Milan  by Student Youth in September 1964, with the nihil obstat of Monsignor Carlo Figini and the imprimatur of the Ambrosian Curia, and dedicated to Paul VI with these words: “To the Pope of Ecclesiam Suam as expression of the meditated and faithful attempt of his students in Milan”   Giulio Andreotti

Interview with the new Cardinal John Tong Hon, Bishop of Hong Kong

“We need much humility, we need to recite the Rosary and the simplest prayers, like those of popular devotion; one understands there that it is very often the people who hand on the faith to the learned”. An Interview with Prosper Grech, the Augustinian created cardinal by Benedict XVI in the recent Consistory

Witness of Cardinal Roger Etchegaray       

Homily by His Eminence Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, during the Holy Mass in which he administered the Sacrament of Confirmation Rome, 18 February 2012, Basilica of St Lawrence Outside the Walls