Word: separatis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
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