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...opening details of the new book include the fact that in 1981 John Paul forgave his would-be assassin as he was rushed to the hospital after being shot in St. Peter's Square. At first, he believed the gunman had been a member of the left-wing Italian terrorist organization the Red Brigades. (He was in fact a Turkish nationalist named Mehmet Ali Agca, who last week was released from prison.) Also, beyond the self-flagellation, John Paul sought to move closer to God by sleeping on the hard floor of his papal bedroom. The physical suffering he inflicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book: John Paul II Whipped Himself, Weighed Retiring | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...Italian citizen writing to congratulate you for "The Color of Faith," about Willow Creek Community Church [Jan. 11]. Another example of a vital multicultural church is Baltimore's St. Matthew, where people from a multitude of races and 42 different countries worship together and share life and faith. Jesus didn't distinguish people by gender, economic means, race or place of origin. By doing our best to imitate him, we bear witness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...white race pure led to the addition of the "mulatto" category in 1850 (and "quadroon" and "octoroon" in 1890), a process traced by Harvard political scientist Melissa Nobles in her book Shades of Citizenship. With rising immigration, Chinese and Japanese were added as categories - but not Irish or Italian - underscoring that somehow Asians were more fundamentally different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should the Census Be Asking People if They Are Negro? | 1/23/2010 | See Source »

...former Communications Minister who is now the opposition's point man on media policy. "We suspect that this maneuver is aimed at slowing the growth of the web's video offerings by a government that has a personal interest in supporting private TV." Dario Denni, head of the Italian Association of Internet Providers, used this analogy to describe the new rule: "It's like assigning responsibility for what drivers do on the road to the highway-maintenance company." (See TIME's tech buyer's guide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlusconi vs. Google: Will Italy Censor YouTube? | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

...Still, the producers of the musical, the Michigan-born Hutchins and Italian-German director Roberto Emmanuele, say they didn't want to create a tribute to Obama or pander to the crowd by playing up his star appeal. Instead, they aimed to tell the story of the people who were inspired by his message of change - themselves included. "This musical is not about politics but about the effect Obama has on people," Hutchins says. "Making the musical resembled Obama's story in a way. We had very little in the beginning, meager means, a meager budget ... Obama inspired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama, the Musical: Germany's Stage Love Letter | 1/20/2010 | See Source »

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