Tibetans need more Int. Support for their cause:Teresa Doursi

 Teresa Doursi tourist  from Roma, Italy who is in Mussoorie to visit her adopted Tibetan daughter who is studying in THF happy valley also joined the protests march organised by Tibetan Youth Congress...

Beatles bigger than Jesus? Just a Lennon joke: Vatican Media

The Vatican's media marked the 40th anniversary of the "White Album" by dismissing as a "quip" John Lennon's notorious claim that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus Christ."The Vatican's newspaper, Osservatore...

Fake priest heard confessions at Vatican

No doubt his punishment was ten "Hail Mary's""A fake priest was caught trying to hear confessions in St Peter’s Basilica, a Vatican judge said today. Judge Gianluigi Marrone, who is a member of the court system...

Devil may wear Prada, Pope doesn't

is there any dress code for pope.. tell me about it...."The official Vatican newspaper has taken the unusual step of revealing that Pope Benedict XVI does not wear Prada. For almost two years, rumours have...

Vatican says Pope's baptism of Muslim not a hostile act

The Vatican's own newspaper printed an article today stating how the Pope Benedict's baptism of an Italian Muslim man over Easter weekend was not a hostile act against Islam, after the move angered critics in the...

Violence flares up at Naples dump

"Protesters have clashed again with Italian police in the city of Naples in a dispute over rubbish disposal. The protesters in the suburb of Pianura are blocking access to an old rubbish dump which city officials want to reopen as landfill sites are full. There have been no...

Customer debit PINs swiped from West Van mall

The 1939 Worlds Fair titled "Tomorrowland" touted Technology will make life easier for Humans in the Future, one wonders if  Scientists then  knew how technological advances would make it easier for...

Violent Protests as Bush Meets with the Pope

Update: Violence has broken out in Rome as protestors clash with police during Bush's visit to the Vatican. "Italian riot police used tear gas on Saturday against anti-Bush demonstrators who donned face masks in...

Romano Amerio

Dr Magister reports on La Civiltà Cattolica's publication of an enthusiastic review by Giuseppe Esposito of a 2005 book about the Swiss philosopher and philologist Romano Amerio, whose work was widely, that is to...

Italian PM hands in resignation

"According to report Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has handed his resignation to the country’s president after losing vote from coalition partners.Several of Mr Prodi’s coalition partners opposed...

Italians March in US Base Protest

Anybody in Italy have any further input or, better yet, firsthand accounts or photos?  Check out the slideshow of the stuff that has come in " Thousands of people are marching in the north-eastern Italian...

Kenya: Cotton Production Plan Inspired

"Nairobi The past four years of the Narc administration has seen a steady revival of agriculture, which is the mainstay of the economy. Milk, coffee and tea production have grown as a result of strategic plans devised to give them a new lease of life after years of...

'To realise by gazing'

An interesting notice of some passages of Romano Guardini, at In illo tempore.The liturgical act can be realized by looking. This does not merely mean that the sense of vision takes note of what is going on in front, but it is in itself a living participation in the act. I...

Israel asks Italy to lead UN troops in Lebanon

"Rome/Beirut, Aug 21 (DPA) Italy was asked by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to lead a UN peacekeeping force for Lebanon. During his telephone call Sunday with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, Olmert also asked for soldiers to monitor the border between Lebanon and...

Drug-using official won't go to prison (NorthJersey.com)

" www.njmg.com Partners GroundZeroSpirit.org Food Drive LOCAL NEWS EAST BERGEN Drug-using official won't go to prison JAMES W. ANNESS / THE RECORD Former Tenafly Councilman Jeffery Romano at his sentencing Tuesday in Newark on heroin possession charges. Former Tenafly...

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