In converting to Catholicism, you are really just switching over your "files" (ideas/customs/most profound expressions of faith) to your "Mac" (Catholic) "hard drive" (brain/immortal soul).
As a child growing up in the urban sprawl of Queens, New York, I dreamed of castles; so I wonder, what do children in Tuscany dream about? I'm guessing it isn't Queens, New York.
The Gateses are visiting our nation's capital to reframe the conversation about global health aid. They said we should spend more time talking about what works and how to measure it.
Playing the skillful political games of their Ottoman predecessors, Turkey's current masters present their country under various guises -- as European...
It could be that in the years ahead every Italian alive in the strange years of Silvio Berlusconi, as both his nation's leading media mogul and domina...
You've got to hand it to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. No matter what happens, he brings a thoroughly business mindset to the job of governing Italy.
Waving banners scrawled with "Berlusconi is bad for Italy's health," more than a hundred thousand people rallied to protest for a free press in Italy over the weekend.
He was five years old when he first started to play with the metal letters of a rotary press. His father was a printer in a small town of Calabria, So...
Arthur Frommer's best-selling book published in 1957, Europe on 5 Dollars a Day, is quaintly incongruous 52 years later.
I'm reminded of an incident in a bathroom in Europe by the recent efforts in Congress to produce a health care reform bill
I've come to realize that style is an essential part of everyone's life, expressed through fashion, living spaces, or simply in the ways in which we handle ourselves in different situations.
Having gone just to witness the scene, I stayed for the second and third acts, foraging for some pizza and Pellegrino at one of the intermissions to complete the Italian effect.
If Italy, a country with a reputation for a certain amount of drama and chaos, can manage to organize and maintain a solid health care system for all of its citizens, why is it so difficult for the United States?
Here in Sweden, forsaking your neighbor is the unforgivable sin. Even if you let the state do the caring, even if you never smile at them, you do not forsake them.
Around the age of two, our daughter started amusing us with a variety of linguistic amalgamations. She also started treating us as walking dictionaries, to fulfill her seemingly insatiable desire to learn how to say every single item she came across in both English and Italian.
How did the world's longest serving dictator make it from diplomatic deep freeze to preparing to make his first ever visit to the U.S. to address the U.N. General Assembly in September?
In Italy there is an urgent need for a strong and unite movement to stop this barbarity. For this to happen everyone should make an improvement, even a small one, just thinking that the country belongs to the Italians and not to the government.
It had been raining about an hour when the locksmith rang my doorbell. I went to the door prepared to put his mind at ease. If you didn't know, Detroit is like that.
Rome is brimming with artists, craftsmen, and quirkiness just waiting to be seen by the curious traveler who dares to wander off the beaten path.
When I had the opportunity to travel to Venice recently, I knew this time I would experience the city in a way I never had before.
Many people think of Italian wine as Chianti Classico, but truth is, there are about 1,500 grape varieties in Italy--more than any other wine growing area in the world.
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