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...wife Victoria, a.k.a. Posh Spice, as Joseph and Mary. As pop singer Kylie Minogue hovers angelically, Hugh Grant and Samuel L. Jackson appear as shepherds while Tony Blair, George W. Bush and Prince Philip portray wise men in the display, which will stay up until January. The Vatican has called the scene blasphemous. And with Posh as the Virgin, the church may have a point...
...REVELATIONS Paul Jenkins (w) Humberto Ramos (a) A murder mystery set in the Vatican where cover-ups and deceit lead to a shocking conclusion. (Summer...
...values." But Carlo Giovanardi, Italy's Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and a Buttiglione ally, says a "Taliban" mentality has consumed his opponents: "We haven't seen an attack against religious freedom like this since the end of World War II. It's a new witch hunt." One of the Vatican's most outspoken Cardinals, former U.N. emissary Renato Raffaele Martino, lashed out at what he called a "new Holy Inquisition" led by a "powerful cultural, economic and political lobby ? against all that is Christian...
...Italy, the Vatican's political influence remains strong enough to keep gay rights off the official agenda. In March the Italian parliament passed one of the most stringent assisted - fertility laws in Europe?it bans donor sperm, donor eggs and surrogate motherhood, which same - sex couples could use to have children, and limits assisted - fertility treatments to "stable" heterosexual couples...
...answer" from the E.U. Well, almost none. The prospect of a thumbs-up from Verheugen this week - his recommendation will be voted on by E.U. government leaders at a summit on Dec. 17 - has focused the minds and unstopped the pens of critics around Europe. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the Vatican's conservative theologian, warned that admitting Muslim Turkey to the E.U. would threaten the Continent's "cultural richness." French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin pointedly asked in the Wall Street Journal: "Do we want the river of Islam to enter the riverbed of secularism?" Austrian E.U. Commissioner for Agriculture Franz...