Cedric Ryngaert (Utrecht): The Legal Status of the Holy See. From the Journal of Religion and Society, a special issue on the Catholic intellectual tradition. From Nexus, Philip Coppens on power struggles and murders in the Vatican. The Pope will die within a year: Vatican "assassination fears" revealed. One of the talking points in Rome in recent months has been the growing frailty of Pope Benedict; inevitably, speculation has turned to his likely successor. A review of The Pope's Soldiers: A Military History of the Modern Vatican by David Alvarez. From New Oxford Review, a review of Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy: Ut Unum Sint and the Prospects of East-West Unity by Adam A.J. DeVille; and will the real Padre Pio please stand up? The introduction to Catholicism and Democracy: An Essay in the History of Political Thought by Emile Perreau-Saussine. From the Journal of Markets and Morality, is some form of secularism the best foundation for Christian engagement in public life? Our bodies are theological: An interview with Christopher West, author of Fill These Hearts: God, Sex, and the Universal Longing (and part 2).
