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Rome hosts the biggest rubbish dump in Europe, claimed to be now nearly full to overflowing, the fulcrum of a rubbish crisis facing all of Italy today. Yet plans are afoot to exploit the unlovely tip further, with public...
The influence of John Paul II will be present in more ways than one at the conclave that opens in the Sistine Chapel on 18 April. Firstly, almost all the cardinals present were appointed by him. Secondly, John Paul II re...
These are some of the names to look out for in the future of the Roman Catholic Church. Any one of these men might be a future pope, but all of them will have an influence one way or another on the way the Church will go...
Sad but jubilant crowds held centre-stage along with the simple wooden coffin of Pope John Paul II at his funeral on Friday 8 April.
The pope and his pilgrim people have been the protagonists of this intense week of mo...
''No, I've never seen anything like it, admitted Captain Giovanni Cimotti from Rome's municipal police, the man in charge of handling the movement of the massive deluge of visitors pouring into Rome for the funeral of Po...
The college of cardinals set Monday 18 April as the date for the beginning of the conclave to elect the new pope to succeed Pope John Paul II.
Meanwhile, detailed planning continues for the funeral at 10.00 on Friday, w...
Just beyond the extreme western boundary of Rome, a new so-called city of the future is taking shape, heralded by its inventors, with a dash of hyperbole, as a modern version of the famed ideal cities of the Renaissance....
Fencing may be the only sport in the world in which you can strike your opponent on the head with a sword and get a handshake when youre done. Such a blow would surely draw the whistle in a basketball game, while swordpl...
Italys recent sharp slide down the international competitiveness stakes has prompted a national crisis of confidence. The Italian economy came 47th in the World Economic Forums (WEF) 2004 competitiveness rankings, six pl...
If you go to Rome to pay homage to the pope, use public transport. Expect to find organised but very long queues. Hot during the day, cool at night. For info tune into 103.3. This is the message the civil protection unit...
Fencing may be the only sport in the world in which you can strike your opponent on the head with a sword and get a handshake when youre done. Such a blow would surely draw the whistle in a basketball game, while swordpl...
''He was one of us. I've been coming to see him since 1986. I was 18 then. I was and am a boy scout. There was a scout-rally in the Abruzzo, a mountainous region to the east of Rome. There were 13,000 of us. He came by...
It was as I sat at a friends house in Borgo Vittorio, just a few streets from St Peters, that I heard the bell toll. There had been so many false alarms over the last few days, but the heaviness of this ring was differen...
lThe sixth annual Trend season of plays by new British writers performed by Italian theatre companies is now under way at Teatro Belli, produced by Rodolfo di Giammarco and promoted by the British Council.
This seasons...
Imagine exotic, mouth-watering aromas that you have not experienced in months. Then imagine your taste buds soaking up forgotten flavours in the way that dry earth absorbs a downpour. Although I still enjoy a delicate sa...
After a long day waiting, the news of the death of Pope John Paul II at 21.30 local time still came almost as a surprise to the city. Although people have been making their way to St Peters for the last two days, and alt...
by Gerald OCollins, S.J
He doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus. Shakespeares words about Julius Caesar bear applying to Pope John Paul IIs mission on our planet. During the years of his papacy, he went on...
You may have noticed a poster that has adorned the insides and outsides of the citys trams and buses for the last few months. It features close-up photos of eight different mouths, each with the words Il difensore civico...
The Descent from the Cross fresco by Daniele Ricciarelli da Volterra (1509-1566) has been unveiled after three years of painstaking restoration work and decades of neglect.
On the Pincio, near the foundations of the ga...
If at this moment a crisis explodes somewhere in the world involving Italian citizens, a highly-trained team in Rome, backed up by banks of sophisticated equipment, will be in action within seconds to locate and help the...
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