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...mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, has done a fine job of cleaning up his image from that formed during his stint as the angry, square-jawed head of Italy's post-fascist youth movement in the early 1980s. Rather than scuffling in far-right-wing street protests, the now 50-year-old has earned a solid center-right reputation for his agility in the legislative arena and on political talk shows. And though his jaw is still square, Alemanno is notably quicker to smile than he was in his tough-guy, jean-jacketed youth. That is all the more true...
...know the current Pope and have worked with the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger cannot recall in his extensive writings anything specific about Padre Pio. The only apparent reference to the miracle worker in the three-year papacy of Benedict XVI is a rather straightforward 2006 discourse Benedict gave in Rome to mark the 50th anniversary of a hospital founded by the monk. "Emulate him," the Pope told worshipers in St. Peter's Square, "in order to help all to live a profound spiritual experience, centered on contemplation of the Crucified Christ...
Close observers of Benedict, however, argue that his focus on reconciling reason and faith does not favor one over the other. While he may not dwell on the popular Padre Pio, the Pope, explains Raphaela Schmid, a Rome-based German philosopher and student of Ratzinger's writings, recognizes that Catholicism's more popular manifestations and the religion's search for an intellectual basis "both have a place in the Church." Schmid says that Benedict has explained why it is "not irrational" to venerate the saints, or believe in miracles. "What you see in this is the language of the heart...
...Unsurprisingly, elected European leaders whose job security depends on economic performance are not thrilled about slowing exports that could easily translate into lower growth and higher unemployment. Because of this, Berlusconi promised yesterday that he would create a “Rome-Paris” axis with Sarkozy, a long-term critic of the ECB, to pressure the Bank into relaxing its strict monetary goals. According to some analysts, the administration of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in Spain could also join the alliance in fear of its own housing bubble woes worsening employment prospects...
...world food prices soar, leaving millions of the world's poor unable to afford staples they lived on just one year ago, the world's stopgap measure against extreme hunger also finds itself short of food. The WFP, the U.N.'s food-aid agency, headquartered in Rome, had budgeted $2.9 billion this year to buy food and distribute it to more than 70 million people worldwide. By late March, however, high food and fuel prices meant that those same planned operations were expected to cost an extra $500 million. Just one month later, says WFP executive director Josette Sheeran...