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Italian Catholics long for simplicity.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 06-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Italian Catholics long for simplicity.(COLUMNS)(the new pope must show impartiality)

Article Excerpt
At about 8 o'clock Monday night, black smoke curled out of the chimney erected on the top of the Sistine Chapel. I didn't see it.

I left the piazza before the smoke swirled over the Sistine Chapel because I had an appointment to meet with two young theologian-journalists who had been living in Italy for five years. I thought the conversation would circle around the various candidates for the papacy. Instead, it became a bolthole into what it is like to be a lay Catholic in Italy.

In fact, they said, it is almost impossible, certainly lonely.

"Why?" I asked. "Because no one is Catholic here?"

"No," they answered. "Because everyone is expected to...

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