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...unprotected churches offer easy pickings. Meanwhile, the one thing that churches have relied upon for centuries to protect them is no longer quite the deterrent it used to be. "The fear of God doesn't exist anymore," laments Father Paolo Picca, pastor of the SS. Salvatore church in Velletri, Italy. "The thieves don't fear anyone, except maybe the police when they come to get them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spirited Away: Art Thieves Target Europe's Churches | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

...fall severed the Nazis' lateral communication between Valmontone and Velletri, their two main strongholds in front of the Alban Hills. From Artena, the Fifth Army's big guns shelled Valmontone and adjacent stretches of Via Casilina. So the main escape route to Rome of General von Flietinghoff's Tenth Army remnants, dropping back from Cassino, became a road of dire peril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ITALY: Nightmare's End | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...religion campaign. He has placed Russia under the particular care of St. Therese. His commission on Russian affairs has forged new and special weapons of prayer, indulgence, invocation, propaganda. Last week His Holiness startled all Europe with a bitter denunciation. To his vicar general, Cardinal Basilic Pompili, Bishop of Velletri, he wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Mass of Expiation | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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