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...formal level, nothing much came of the moral rearrangements that some Catholics used to advocate back in the late 20th century, such as the right to divorce, tolerance for gay sex and, above all, birth control. Rome's insistence on adhering to church tradition has required the hierarchy to hold the line, but in practice most local priests wink at widespread violations of these tenets. Parishes have become considerably more democratic, and lay people (most of them women) perform most tasks, including administration of everything but the sacraments. The ban on women priests, however, remains in force. Priests and bishops...
...papacy is ecumenically friendly and has helped establish an innocuous organization, the World Christian Conference. But decades ago, Rome's intransigence about its powers killed off hopes for a grand reunion with Eastern Orthodoxy. Nor do the Protestants show much interest in mergers; unruliness characterizes the Evangelicals, Charismatics and independent African churches. The Protestant liberals, only vaguely Christian any longer, harbor anger about Rome's decisive moves in the 2040s to restrict Bible criticism and halt efforts to blur the lines between Christianity and other religions...
This presence of the antique, which was an obsessive and recurrent aspect of all artists' experience in Rome or Naples, surfaces elsewhere in Ribera's work, sometimes in a disguised form. Looking at the great white belly-bulge of his Drunken Silenus, 1626, one sees it as gross and comic. Yet there may be something more behind it; namely, the sarcophagus figures of Etruscan bigwigs, each displaying his un-ideal paunch, a common sight around Rome...
...first time, Italian, Spanish and British police joined their counterparts in the Drug Enforcement Administration in undercover storefront stings that penetrated the cartel's money-moving operations in Europe. In Rome, authorities arrested 30 people, including one member apiece from each of Italy's most legendary -- and lethal -- organized crime groups: the Mafia, Camorra and 'Ndrangheta. The arrests underscored the existence of a dangerous alliance between the Cali cartel, which controls 80% to 90% of the world cocaine production, and Italy's formidable organized crime groups. "Money is the life blood of a drug organization, and our efforts to dismantle...
...trial will also open a Pandora's box of allegations by the former Atlanta branch manager of the Italian Banca Nazionale del Lavoro and his attorney Bobby Lee Cook. They say that senior B.N.L. officials in Rome not only approved the loans to Iraq but that the U.S. and Italian governments were aware of the transactions. As proof, Drogoul and Cook introduced what they claim is an internal bank document written in Italian and slipped under Cook's hotel room door last week. The document is an executive summary of meetings between bank executives, Italian government officials and representatives...