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...Eighteen months ago, one Rome-based progressive cleric had said he was "surprised to see that [Benedict] seems to be open to hear new ideas." But today, the same priest is disappointed. There has been no sign of any of the hoped-for reforms: overturning the ban on communion for divorced and remarried Catholics, reconsidering the celibacy requirement for priests, allowing gays in seminaries, or a softening of the condom ban to allow for distribution in AIDS-ravaged Africa. The release last month of the Pope's final document on what had seemed to be a convivial and intellectually open...
...will never be able to travel anywhere in the European Union nor to any country with an extradition treaty with Italy. The American military says Lozano is not to blame for the death of Calipari but it has no plans to send an American lawyer to defend him in Rome...
...care to read the signatures in the historic Treaties of Rome of 1957, the baby steps toward the EU, you won’t find a British signature. That is because Britain only first applied unsuccessfully in 1967 before finally joining in the seventies, ultimately seduced by the common market dynamism and growth of its members, which were rapidly materializing the “European economic miracle.” Call it opportunism...
Published in English in the run-up to the 50th anniversary in March of the Treaty of Rome, it would also appear that the book is an attempt to inject a sense of urgency into the E.U. debate. It includes an epilogue added for the English translation that describes the votes against the E.U. constitution in France and the Netherlands. Mak ends, uncharacteristically, with an injunction: "Europe has only one chance to succeed...
What Europe Hath Wrought Re the cover story about Europe since the Treaty of Rome [March 26]: I was sad to see that my favorite magazine has fallen for the European Commission spin. While the report cited 20 benefits from the European Union (E.U.), it was a pity the article did not list the 40 things the E.U. has not done. Auditors have not been able to approve the annual accounts for the European Economic Community because of fraud and corruption. Democracy has been destroyed, since most of our laws are now made by bureaucrats in Brussels...