Word: vatican
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...pick up (and leave) influences across the peninsula. He spent time in Perugia and in Florence, where he assisted the Venice-born painter Domenico Veneziano. Later, he was commissioned by Pope Nicolas V and Pope Pius II to paint several frescoes in the palaces of the Vatican. Much of Piero's best output - or at least the best that remains - can be found in the midsized cities of central and eastern Italy, where he was a favorite of the major noblemen who ruled the towns of Urbino, Ferrara and Rimini...
...continue long after the documentary airs, the blog wars die out and the godless TV networks air their Easter specials, which is probably just as well for everyone, including James Cameron. If he really managed to destroy Christianity, his most enraged enemies wouldn't be saying Mass at the Vatican. They'd be doing lunch...
...Ruini, head of Italy's bishop conference, for their repeatedly strong condemnations of an Italian government proposal to legalize civil unions for homosexuals and heterosexuals who don't want to marry. Though no supporter of gay marriage, Martini nevertheless decided it was time to register his opposition to the Vatican's hammering away on family-related issues. "The family is the cell of society, and is therefore very important," he said. "Certainly the family should be defended and promoted. But the promoting, I think, is more important than defending." He went on to warn against the "confrontation among the various...
...Martini and Ratzinger were already acclaimed Catholic scholars when Pope John Paul II promoted them to two of the top spots in the Church hierarchy: Martini to Milan in 1979 as Archbishop of Europe's largest diocese, and Ratzinger to Rome in 1981 as head of the Vatican's doctrinal office. Over the years, the two soft-spoken Cardinals became seen as intellectual and institutional titans, practically alter egos, and the undeclared leaders of opposing theological camps battling for the soul of the Church. Like Ratzinger's backers, Martini fans once hoped their man might succeed John Paul. Still today...
...Church traditionalists, Martini remains a bete noire of liberal leadership. One conservative website described his recent remarks about an Italian euthanasia case as "another subversive blow." L'Espresso's veteran Vatican correspondent Sandro Magister, a supporter of the Pope's clear doctrinal lines, acknowledged Martini's continued weight. His dissent on moral issues, Magister wrote, "pits the highest leaders of the worldwide Church against each other with conflicting positions...