Word: separatis
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...many Italians, inured to such delays, the answer lies in open concubinage. Italian Author Gabriella Barca, in her book / Separati (The Separated Ones), estimates that at least 800,000 Italians live quite publicly with second "wives" and families. The church, however, is adamantly opposed to a pending Italian divorce bill and even briefly took to Vatican Radio to beam its protest to the Italian people. Yet the Vatican's own reforms-even such enlightened measures as the new American regulations-will be crippled by a woeful lack of skilled manpower. One fairly optimistic Vatican canon lawyer estimates that only...
...complicated, costly and time-consuming annulment by the Vatican. Even so, an estimated 2,500,000 people are presently separated from their spouses; of these, one-third have made more or less permanent extralegal arrangements. Writer Gabriella Parca, author of a much-discussed book on the predicament (I Separati), estimates that "no fewer than 5,000,000 people [one-tenth of Italy's population] are involved in the drama of indissolubility and suffer its consequences." The total includes those separated, mistresses and illegitimate children...
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