A Digest of Articles and Main Rubrics

Modus Vivendi: Dialogue, A Duel or A Duet? (Abagar), p. 1: Pope Benedict about to issue a motu proprio decree establishing a new Vatican organ for the care of atheists and unbelievers. By March next year the an "Courtyard of Gentiles will open doors in Paris.

Metropolitan Bishop Ilarion Was of a Different Dough (George Eldarov), pp. 1-2: Commenting on the figure af Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop Hilarion of Dorostol in Bulgaria, deceased on October 28th last year, the author recalls his own encounters with him in the last four decades and extols the ascetic life and the openness of mind of the saintly bishop.

Parallels: Near East Christians (G.E.), p. 3: In view of the General Synod of Catholic bishop in Rome next October, the note pinpoints the situation of Christians in the area, with special attention to those on the Arabian peninsula, who are growing in numbers and need special pastoral care.

A Journey. Chapter Twenty Two: An Open Door House (George Eldarov), pp. 4-6: Going through the guestbook of Abagar House in Rome shows that among the more than 2000 people who stopped at the house there were quite a number of VIP, who played roles in the society of our time. Among them a prime minister of Bulgaria, a vice-president and two chairmen of the country's parliament, representatives, political leaders, writers, journalists, poets, artists, ambassadors, bishops and archbishops, religious orders' superiors, Vatican prelates, church activists, a famous insurgent of old, businessmen, security agents, original characters…

Amomg our Rubrics, to note:
Church News: Cardinal Walter Kasper steps down; 15 000 priests at the conclusion of the Year of Priesthood in Rome; Action "Catholics Come Home" in USA; Oldest portraits of Apostles discovered in Rome; Vatican and Vietnam; Vatican and Cuba.

Book Reviews: Presenting a magnificent book of Bulgarian saints by professors Plamen Pavlov and Hristo Temelski, and a the tale of personal experience with old books by Rossen Petrov.

In our Diary for June 2010. one can read about our participation to a lecture by prof. Fabrizio Mastrofino of Vatican Radio in the Aula Magna of Sofia University on June 8th, a premiere of a book on ancient Bulgarian books by Rossen Petrov on the 10th , another of a monumental edition of a Book of Bulgarian Saints in the Aula Magma of the Bulgarian National Library on June 17th and a magnificent exhibition of paintings by top Bulgarian painter Svetlin Russev in the House of Painting of Sofia on Katin (1940-2010), as a site of a Polish holocaust of world relevance.