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...Catholic Church's position on "intelligent design" appears to be-well, evolving. An article published this week in the Vatican's newspaper of record, L'Osservatore Romano, is bad news for those hoping the Church would call on schools to teach "intelligent design" in in science class. In the article, evolutionary biology professor Fiorenzo Facchini, who teaches at the University of Bologna, pondered whether the theory, which holds that the complexity of nature makes it, necessarily, the product of the design of a conscious creator, should be taught alongside discussions of Darwin. His conclusion: "This is not how science...
...deeply Italian," he says. That's a talent that will be in even greater demand in the run-up to April elections, when Italian voters will decide whether to reinstall Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for another five years or to oust him in favor of former European Commission President Romano Prodi. Thirty-six years ago, a young priest officiated at the wedding of a fresh-faced economics professor, who, like the priest, came from a region near Bologna. The priest and the professor, Ruini and Prodi, have weathered the years; their early rapport may have endured less well. Prodi ignored...
...Pope finally opened up. Officially, reporters were barred from the 12th century cathedral in Introd, just down the hill from Les Combes, while he had a few words with local priests as his vacation ended. But a day later, he passed the proceedings to L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, and they were riveting. In a rat-a-tat-tat strafe of global Christianity, he asserted that traditional Protestantism is in "profound crisis," that evangelicalism owes its popularity to a "certainty" that he said derives from its willingness to settle for a "minimum of faith," and that although Catholicism...
SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italian Prime Minister, blaming Italy's economic woes on the terms negotiated by former Premier and now opposition leader Romano Prodi for entry into the single currency
...ABDUCTED. RUBEN OMAR ROMANO, 47, coach of Mexico's first-division soccer team Cruz Azul; by armed kidnappers; in Mexico City. Romano, an Argentine who led the club to a second-place finish this year, was ambushed while driving away from a practice session, according to eyewitnesses. A note found near a church demanded a $500,000 ransom. Sixty-seven people have been kidnapped in Mexico City so far this year...