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Entry: Pope Banned from Speaking in Rome Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/wankers_ban_pope_from_speaking_in_rome#15037 Post contents: John, I agree with Steven that this is another chapter in the long tug-of-war between the Church and the secular goverment in Italy. There is plenty of History in Italy, and it tends to repeat itself (a good lesson on how much it does is Luigi Barzini's sketch of a prominent political figure, who has you believing he's talking about Mussolini until, after he describes the corpse hanging in a public place, he identifies the man as Cola di Rienzo). In a sense it involves modernity, because it all started with the French Revolution and Napoleon, but as for the more recent modernity, I think it is just the "excuse du jour" for the latest skirmish. Sent at: 2008 11 21