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My father, my lover: Priests struggle with celibacy

Alessandro SpecialeMay 26, 2010 13:44Updated May 30, 2010 13:36
ROME, Italy — They are used to secrecy, to hiding their feelings, to waiting in the shadows for their men. But now a group of women who have had intimate relationships with Catholic priests has decided to speak up against celibacy.

Berlusconi under attack over L'Aquilla

May 24, 2010 14:18Updated May 24, 2010 14:18
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Top News: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has suffered setbacks ever since his coalition scored a strong showing in the March regional elections. A weak economy, legal troubles, and the fall out from last year’s sex scandals have all taken a toll.

McDonalds calls local foods campaign a success

Silvia MarchettiMay 25, 2010 17:34Updated May 30, 2010 13:34
ROME, Italy — Italians have always had a soft spot for locally grown and homemade products. Now Italy’s government has allied itself with the most notorious American fast food chain — McDonalds — to source food locally.

NATO contemplates a broader mission

May 18, 2010 07:35Updated May 30, 2010 13:34
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Eleven years ago, few people other than south-Asia watchers had any idea what the Taliban was, much less could have imagined why more than 100,000 soldiers would be needed to fight it. At that time, the world’s premier military alliance, NATO, had never fought a ground war, operated outside of Europe, or invoked its Article 5 collective-defense clause.  But Sept. 11, 2001 changed everything for the alliance. Well, almost everything.

Analysis: Italian mafia brokering Mexican drug trade

Christopher LivesayMay 6, 2010 10:45Updated May 30, 2010 13:32
NEW YORK — This Friday, mafia boss and notorious narco-trafficker Vincenzo Roccisano is scheduled to appear before a Nassau County judge after his February arrest, at a Long Island restaurant, for illegally re-entering the United States. Four years ago, Roccisano was deported from the U.S. to Italy after serving a 20-year sentence for routing drugs from Latin America to Europe. Roccisano’s arrest may look like a throwback to decades past when Italian mafiosi — not Mexican traficantes — controlled the flow of drugs.

Holy foibles and the clash of media titans

April 26, 2010 11:31Updated April 26, 2010 11:31
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 Top News: Calls for Pope Benedict to resign or issue a mea culpa for his role and the role of the church in a series of pedophilia revelations and related cover-ups has dominated Italian front pages in recent weeks.

The priest sex abuse scandal is closing in on the pope

April 11, 2010 08:21Updated May 30, 2010 13:28
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Houses in Sicily for 1 euro? Maybe

Stephan FarisApril 5, 2010 06:31Updated May 30, 2010 13:27
ROME, Italy — It’s a novel way to recover from natural disaster: A village in Sicily is selling houses in its earthquake-battered city center for just 1 euro, provided the buyer spends at least 100,000 euros ($135,000) to restore it with traditional methods and local labor. 

Global economy: grease is the word

April 3, 2010 09:26Updated May 30, 2010 13:27
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BOSTON — The business world is abuzz with Apple's magical new iPad, set for worldwide release today. This column is not about that. That's because the real economic action this week took place not in Apple's shimmering and idealized high tech utopia, but rather, in the greasy and grimy world of manufacturing. No, it's not as sexy as a Steve Jobs marketing orgy. But it is more important. It turns out the world's factories are churning fiercely again, from the U.S., to China to Europe and beyond. And that's a very good thing.

Expect delays before John Paul II is made a saint

Alessandro Speciale April 1, 2010 06:09Updated May 30, 2010 13:27
VATICAN CITY — Airline ticket prices often seem to fluctuate randomly, with a given route affordable one day and costly the day after. But there is a reason why a round-trip ticket from Warsaw to Rome on the weekend of Oct. 16 costs up to three-and-a-half times as much as one for the weekend before or after that: Poles were sure that on that day — the 32nd anniversary of his ascent to the pontificate — the beatification of their beloved Pope John Paul II would take place in St. Peter's Square, and they bought tickets en masse.
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