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...blogger in the coastal city of Senigallia. "They're not even focused yet on how to control the Internet since they haven't even figured out how to use it to their advantage." Case in point: more than 100,000 people attended an anti-Berlusconi rally in Rome last month that was organized on Facebook, but the top opposition politicians snubbed the event. Conti says the country's leaders - left, right and center - are still focused solely on reaching the public via TV and newspapers. And unlike the Internet, the movers and shakers of the old media are some very...
...Filipina as she ushers the latter up a stairway to a pastel-colored horizon. The allegorical meaning of Hidalgo's oil composition The Christian Virgins Being Exposed to the Populace is rather more pointed. Playing masterfully with light and darkness, the painter chooses to depict a scene from ancient Rome wherein naked Christian virgins are being lasciviously peddled by slave traders. "Hidalgo wanted to say that the virgins are actually the Philippines," explains Joyce Toh, an assistant curator at the Singapore Art Museum. "It's an allegory about persecution under the Spanish...
...Church leaders have sought to reassure their Jewish counterparts both inside and outside of Italy, with some even urging the Vatican to postpone the Pope's long-scheduled visit to the early 20th century Great Synagogue of Rome. The Rev. Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, said that the "heroic virtue" designation that came with Pius being given the title "venerable" last month - the first step toward his beatification and eventual sainthood - is not a historical verdict but an internal religious evaluation. Lombardi also emphasized how much the church treasures its rapport with the Jews, and said that the study...
...Some Jewish leaders, however, are not as upset about Benedict's synagogue visit. Riccardo Di Segni, who took over as Rome's chief rabbi in 2001, has not always seen eye to eye with Benedict. He cancelled a Catholic-Jewish meeting last year after the Pope's decision to allow wider use of the traditional Latin liturgy, which includes a Good Friday prayer calling for the conversion of the Jews. But he and other Jews felt it was better to move ahead with the synagogue visit as planned...
...Riccardo Pacifici, president of Rome's Jewish Community, says that the potential upside of the visit outweighs any doubts over whether Pius deserves to be a saint. "We hope the images going out to the world of the Pope coming to a Jewish house of worship ... will send out a signal on the individual level that we can all dialogue with the 'other' with the force of our conscience and our heads held high, and without feeling barriers of fear or prejudice," he says. (See pictures of the Pope visiting the Holy Land...