Vatican becoming irrelevant in Italian Politics
Quote:A top Catholic cleric has spoken out against legislation being discussed in the Italian parliament to grant equal rights to all religious faiths in mainly Catholic Italy. "In the current...
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Quote:Stefano Gabbana has accused the Roman Catholic Church of causing an "enormous delay" in the process of recognition of civil marriages in Italy. The 44-year-old designer, who admitted recently...
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Quote:Italian Premier Romano Prodi said his center-left government is pushing ahead with a divisive proposal to grant unmarried couples legal recognition, drawing the criticism Sunday of bishops and...
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Quote:Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi and Pope Benedict XVI are headed for a showdown over gay marriage.Prodi's cabinet plans to debate tomorrow a draft bill giving legal recognition to...
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Quote:Rarely is a general audience talk interrupted by spontaneous applause, and Pope Benedict XVI seemed as surprised as anyone when the clapping began in the Vatican's audience hall.The pope had...
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Quote:Prominent Catholic leaders in Italy fired back at the Vatican on Thursday to stop interfering in politics -- particularly with the civil partnership bill that passed Prime Minister Romano...
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Quote:The most extreme diagnosis of Italy's problem was offered by journalist Peter Popham in the Independent. He blamed it all on the Vatican: "Imagine that Hitler did not die in his bunker in 1945...
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Quote:The political activism of the Catholic hierarchy seems to indicate that the Church is unwilling to give up the significant vestiges of temporal power that it still manages to retain in...
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Quote:The most extreme diagnosis of Italys problem was offered by journalist Peter Popham in the Independent.He blamed it all on the Vatican: Imagine that Hitler did not die in his bunker in 1945 but...
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Corrupt politicians is a Italian tradition. . . .Quote:In Italy, corruption charges and convictions have become so common that they barely resonate with a weary public. One EU report released in 2007...
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Quote:The Vatican has been accused of trying to bring down the Italian government after a Catholic minister abandoned Romano Prodi's coalition government, leaving it facing collapse.The impetus for...
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Aside from the desire not to offend the church, there are underlying political reasons that explain the reluctance of Berlusconi's private and the state-controlled public television channels to...
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In Italy Catholicism, as a mark of cultural difference in a homogenising world, is held dear in some unlikely quarters: among atheist intellectuals, for example. As recently as 2006 a research...
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Italy is not a country for young peopleCardinal Achille Silvestrini, the Vatican's former foreign affairs minister speaks about the current situation young people face in Italy. “An entire generation...
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