Italian Lessons

Italian Lessons

They don’t have Diet Mountain Dew, at least in Sorrento.  That’s one of the many things I learned during a mid-December week Susan and I spent celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary.  We decided to forgo attempting a grand tour of Italy. Instead, we stayed the...

In Italian Sex Scandal, Vatican Caught in a Bind

VATICAN CITY (RNS) No major Western European leader in recent years has been a more stalwart ally of the Roman Catholic Church than Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi’s stands against euthanasia, living wills, in-vitro fertilization and domestic...

Pope, in Sicily, Denounces Mob

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI spent Sunday (Oct. 3) in the heartland of the Sicilian Mafia, denouncing organized crime and paying tribute to those slain in the long struggle against the mob. “Don’t give in to the temptations of the Mafia, which is a path of...

Italian Baptists Look to U.S.

I represent a small convention of Baptist churches, the Italian Baptist Union, around 120 churches more or less. Sociologically speaking in Italy we are a small minority. For us it is important, therefore, to look at the life of Baptist churches and conventions...