Word: rome
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...comfortable with the lack of due process that zero tolerance provides for the accused. Of course, there was little due process when investigations were left in bishops' hands. And last year the Vatican issued new rules so discreetly that most churchmen don't know that anything was changed. Rome quietly published, in Latin, a papal directive known as a motu proprio (meaning under his personal authority), tucked inside a long annual record of the Holy See. It directed that allegations of sex abuse be brought secretly for judgment by Rome's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, once known...
...Vatican has long dismissed all the fuss as "an American problem," as if it plagued no other countries. In the corridors of Rome, prelates disparage the "litigious" nature of U.S. society and blame abusive priests on lax American sexual mores. Complains a Vatican official: "In America there is too much reliance on modern psychology in place of the church's traditional wisdom." Officials say the Pope is greatly pained by the crisis in the U.S. church. But that doesn't mean he is ready or able to confront such an explosive issue. The papacy hates to bend to outside pressure...
Realistically, Rome will not address big reforms while the crisis is boiling. That is a reassuring tradition for the two American Cardinals most implicated in the scandals, Boston's Bernard Law and New York's Egan. But plenty of influential Catholics are suggesting that the U.S. church would benefit from penitential resignations at the top. Says an editorial in the upcoming issue of the national Roman Catholic weekly America: "If early on some bishops had been willing to claim full responsibility and resign, victims, parishes, the media and juries might have been less inclined to vent their anger...
...father, a notorious usurer, and in 1303 Giotto was commissioned to decorate it. He covered the interior with a fresco narrative of the lives of Jesus and his mother, adding figures of the Virtues and Vices and a Last Judgment. "Giotto was a genius," says Professor Giuseppe Basile of Rome's Central Restoration Institute, who oversaw the restoration. "He planned the location of scenes to fit the chapel's architecture precisely. He developed a form of perspective. His figures had natural movements and expressions. The stories themselves progressed at a human pace with characters well-known to viewers, repeating mystery...
...have their spaces on and around Via Roma. Or search for a real bargain in nearby Piazza della Repubblica, home to the biggest open-air market in Europe. For dining out, both the food and wine are excellent, though expect heavier cream-based sauces than you'd find in Rome or Naples. And, of course, if you really came for the cars, there is always the Museum of the Automobile...