CHELSEA: St. Louis Center to celebrate 50 years
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:45:40 -0700
In 1958, Cardinal Edward Mooney of the Archdiocese of Detroit and Cardinal John O’Hara of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia dreamed of building two schools for boys with special needs in their respective communities.
A Man of Few Words and an Artisanal Weapon
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:05:58 -0700
“You have the hands of a craftsman, not an artist,” says a friendly village priest (Paolo Bonacelli) to an American expatriate whose identity is ambiguous but whose face is recognizable to the rest of us as George Clooney ’s. This fellow, temporarily assuming the name Edward, having been Jack before, but known to two different women as Mr. Butterfly, has showed up in a picturesque town in ...
World News
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:50:56 -0700
Thousands flee as volcano erupts after 400 years - Today, 09:28 - PA Tens of thousands of people packed emergency shelters after a long-dormant volcano in western Indonesia spewed clouds of hot ash and smoke more...
Nine O'Clock
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:41:22 -0700
Libyan leader set to meet with Berlusconi, business in focus. ROME - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s attempt to convert dozens of young women to Islam during a visit to Italy led to an angry reaction from Italian media on Monday.
Newton proposed to Taylor before assault claims
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:28:12 -0700
Matthew Newton proposed to his girlfriend, Transformers star Rachael Taylor, just days before she applied for a court order against the Australian actor accusing him of "violent assaults", according to his mother.
Transformers - Newton Proposed To Taylor Before Assault Claims
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:26:52 -0700
MATTHEW NEWTON proposed to his girlfriend, TRANSFORMERS star RACHAEL TAYLOR, just days before she applied for a court order against the Australian actor accusing him of...
Author: Amanda Knox wants to adopt
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:53:51 -0700
Amanda Knox, the American student convicted in Italy of murdering her British roommate, has told an Italian lawmaker she hopes to adopt children and be a writer when free.
Amanda Knox jailhouse conversations to be subject of book
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:03:41 -0700
ROME - Amanda Knox, the American student convicted in Italy of murdering her British roommate, has told an Italian lawmaker in a series of jailhouse conversations that she hopes to adopt children and be a writer when free. Lawmaker Rocco Girlanda told The Associated Press on Saturday that he kept a diary of his frequent visits with Knox in her Perugia jail, material that has formed the basis ...
Amanda Knox says she wants to adopt
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:30:46 -0700
An American student convicted in Italy of murdering her British roommate has told an Italian lawmaker that she hopes to adopt children and be a writer when free.
Amanda Knox tells lawmaker she wants to adopt
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:46:27 -0700
Associated Press - August 28, 2010 7:35 AM ET ROME (AP) - An American student convicted in Italy of murdering her British roommate has told an Italian lawmaker in a series of jailhouse...
Amanda Knox, jailed in Italy for murder, wants to adopt children when free, according to book
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:49:13 -0700
ROME (AP) — Amanda Knox, the American student convicted in Italy of murdering her British roommate, has told an Italian lawmaker in a series of jailhouse conversations that she hopes to adopt children and be a writer when free.
Life & Style
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:40:30 -0700
I was baptised a Catholic, educated at a convent and spent my childhood inventing sins for the confessional box, so the road to renouncing my Catholicism has been a long one.
'Attack on Ratzinger': Italian book assesses Benedict's papacy
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:43:33 -0700
Friends and foes alike of Pope Benedict XVI concur that he's got an image problem. Where they place the blame for it may differ, but the fact itself seems clear: From a PR point of view, this is a pontificate defined by its train wrecks.
On the trail of the Pink Panther gang
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:20:19 -0700
The fractions of seconds flicker past on the CCTV footage from the Exelco store in Tokyo's upmarket Ginza shopping district.
Italy: Mafia land back in public hands
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:09:54 -0700
Italy puts Mafia land and other spoils of organized crime to good use. read more
Iceman may have received ceremonial burial
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:59:51 -0700
Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,300-year-old mummy found in the Italian Alps, may have been ceremonially buried, according to a study which mapped the items found near the frozen corpse. Italy - Ötzi the Iceman - Mummy - Burial - Death
Italy: Explosion near anti-Mafia magistrate's home
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:55:31 -0700
ROME (AP) A bombing in southern Italy has damaged the apartment house of a magistrate who investigates the 'ndrangheta crime syndicate. Authorities say the pre-dawn explosion Thursday in Reggio Calabria was apparently the latest act of intimidation by the 'ndrangheta, a global cocaine trafficker. It shattered windows and the door, but magistrate Salvatore Di Landro and other occupants were ...
Priest: Islam May Fill Europe's Religious Vacuum
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:07:49 -0700
ROME, SEPT. 3, 2010 ( Zenit.org ).- On an official visit to Italy this week, the Libyan chief of state caused a few ripples by stating that Europe should convert to Islam. The general public was perhaps more shocked, however, by his request for a few billion dollars to stop African immigration.
Italy's bulldozer blitz on Roma
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:00:24 -0700
Bulldozers started demolishing Roma homes on the outskirts of Rome on Thursday. The assault came after the capital's far-right mayor Gianni Alemanno pledged to "control our territory" by razing all Gypsy camps to the ground.
Behind bars, Amanda Knox dreams of adopting child
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:12:02 -0700
Amanda Knox, the American student convicted in Italy of murdering her British roommate, has told an Italian lawmaker in a series of jailhouse conversations that she hopes to adopt children and be a writer when free. Those conversations have become the basis of a book that will be published this fall. United States - Murder of Meredith Kercher - Writer - Italy - Amanda Knox
