A collection of 14 articles from the July 2021 edition of La Civiltà Cattolica, the highly respected and oldest Catholic journal published from Rome.

It’s abundantly clear now that the first step to kick starting the post-covid world is universal vaccination, The Urgency of Universal Access to the Covid-19 Vaccine looks for answers to this problem, what we have learned about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the economics and politics of the issue.

“Physics could be seen as a game of chess played by the gods, with us observing the movements of the pieces on the chessboard without being aware of the rules of the game but with a burning desire to discover them”: said the great American physicist and genius Richard Feynman. Paolo Beltrame investigates the “Muon g-2” experiment that has physicists speculating if it is a “new physics”.

Argentinian Jesuit Diego Fares reviews a rich body of speeches that the Pope has produced in, for and from the Latin American region in Pope Francis and his Messages to Latin America.

Fr Giovanni Sale looks at the Arab Spring ten years on. The aim of these revolutions was greater political and socio-economic participation. Have they succeeded and what are the lasting outcomes?