SACRAMENTS
The Church doesn't create its life by itself
An interview with Cardinal Walter Kasper — By Gianni Valente
The role of the Pope? Let’s talk about it with the Orthodox Churches
— by Gianni Valente

GEOPOLITICS
The slow steps to disarmament
— by Ambassador Mario Maiolini

CUBA
For a dialogue going beyond the commonplaces
A letter from the Cuban Bishops. — by Cuba's Episcopal Conference

AFRICA
We who aren’t Harry Potter
Reportage from Kinshasa — by Danilo De Marco
Knock and it will be opened to you
— by Danilo de Marco

CHRISTIANITY
“The theologizing of politics would become the ideologizing of faith”
An intervention of the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith — by Joseph Ratzinger

AFRICA
A home for the victims of superstition
— by Paolo Mattei

JOHN PAUL I
“I began to love the Virgin Mary...
— by Stefania Falasca

LATIN AMERICA
Our Bet
— by Cardinal Oscar A. Rodríguez Maradiaga

HISTORY OF THE CHURCH
The Popes and Little Teresa of the Child Jesus
— by Giovanni Ricciardi

REVIEWS
The Conclaves in close-up
Books — by Walter Brandmüller
Questions of quorum
The election of the Pope in history — by Gianni Cardinale

NEW AGE
Sixty-eight, mysticism, satanism
— by Giovanni Cubeddu