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The Making of a Global Icon Mother of God A History of the Virgin Mary
Sally Cunneen
"Sally Cunneen By Miri Rubin Yale Univ. Press. 560p $35 9780300105001 As a 13th-century French poet once said, Mary is “the sea that no one exhausts.” Yet the remarkable cultural history that the medieval historian Miri Rubin has assembled from worldwide resources seems to challenge that
Editorials
In the Service of Peace
The Editors
The church in Africa is experiencing the fastest growth in the history of Christianity.
Power Vacuum?: Canon law and the continuity of papal leadership
Peter Schineller
Canon law and the continuity of papal leadership
Signs Of the Times
Bishop Meets With Ousted President

Days after the deposed leader of Honduras returned to his country, church leaders met with both parties involved in the political standoff.

Letters
Letters
Enough Grinning and Groping One reason people sit apart during Mass (Current Comment, 9/28) is to avoid being frowned at for not holding hands and raising them during the Our Father, as if this empty pretense of community could somehow make up for the absence of a shared, vital attention to Christ&r
Signs Of the Times
Sierra Leone Struggles After Civil War

Many people who fled the country during the war have returned, although they struggle to survive amid a shattered economy.

Books
Papal Review
Robert P. Imbelli
An introduction to Pope Benedict's theological vision
Music
Neverland Awaits: Is Michael Jackson our future?
Terrance Klein

Was Michael Jackson our once and future king? Did his life chart the course of our own?

Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Karen Sue Smith
Reflections on a transatlantic friendship
Confessions of a Modern Nun: The Vatican visitation prompts reflection on a religious divide.
Ilia Delio
The Vatican visitation prompts reflection on a religious divide.
Poetry
The Authority of the Ordained
Moira Linehan

The authority of the ordained—a cardinal’s

Signs Of the Times
Pope Visits Czech Republic

Pope Benedict XVI urged audiences to rediscover the spiritual and moral values that sustained their struggle for freedom from Communist rule.

Signs Of the Times
News Briefs

Carl A. Anderson, the supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, has been named by Pope Benedict XVI to a council that supervises the Vatican bank.

Books
The Making of a Global Icon
Sally Cunneen
As a French poet once said, Mary is the sea that no one exhausts.
New Media
A Digital Defense
David E. Nantais

Technology does not make people smarter, but it can help them to connect to a cause in which they believe.

Current Comment
Current Comment
The Editors
Oprah and Uwem; Dialogue with the Stars
When Silence Is Betrayal: A call for justice for the people of Gaza
Donald J. Moore
A call for justice for the people of Gaza
Signs Of the Times
Synod to Address Ethnic and Religious Divisions

The second Synod of Bishops for Africa will spotlight the “forgotten wars” that are no longer on the media radar but cause daily suffering.

Columns
Proofreading the Pope
John F. Kavanaugh
George Weigel thinks that some liberal virus has infected the pope's encyclical.
Signs Of the Times
Catholic Students Resist Dress Code

Christian girls in the Gaza Strip are under pressure to wear Islamic dress in public schools.