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  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
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  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: (L-R) Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore. a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here with his partner Michele Nicolosi (59), an Italian post office employee, walk back to their car in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: (R-L) Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore. a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here with his partner Michele Nicolosi (59), an Italian post office employee, her in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - looks at the monumental entrance of the Cathedral of Monreale, in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - walks by the monumental entrance of the Cathedral of Monreale, in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: The "Lexicon Latinum Hodiernum", a dictionary containing words, proverbs and phrases in common use in modern society translated into Latin, is held by Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist, here in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 11 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore (center)- a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here by the Cathedral of Monreale as a nun passes by, in Monreale, Italy, on June 11th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210611_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 11 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist formerly known as Father Lepore,a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here in the Cathedral of Monreale during a mass, in Monreale, Italy, on June 11th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210611_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 11 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist formerly known as Father Lepore,a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here in the Cathedral of Monreale during a mass, in Monreale, Italy, on June 11th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210611_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 11 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore (right) - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here with his partner Mihele Nicolosi driving through  Palermo, Italy, on June 11th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210611_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: (R-L) Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore. a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here with his partner Michele Nicolosi (59), an Italian post office employee, her in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: (R-L) Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore. a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here with his partner Michele Nicolosi (59), an Italian post office employee, her in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: (R-L) Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore. a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here with his partner Michele Nicolosi (59), an Italian post office employee, her in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - looks at a tourist walking by  in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait with the "Lexicon Latinum Hodiernum", a dictionary containing words, proverbs and phrases in common use in modern society translated into Latin, here in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait with the "Lexicon Latinum Hodiernum", a dictionary containing words, proverbs and phrases in common use in modern society translated into Latin, here in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
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  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 11 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait at the entrance of the Cathedral of Monreale, in Monreale, Italy, on June 11th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210611_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
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  • MONREALE, ITALY - 11 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore (center) - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist formerly known as Father Lepore,a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here in the Cathedral of Monreale during a mass, in Monreale, Italy, on June 11th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210611_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 11 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist formerly known as Father Lepore,a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here in the Cathedral of Monreale during a mass, in Monreale, Italy, on June 11th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210611_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here reading the "Lexicon Latinum Hodiernum", a dictionary containing words, proverbs and phrases in common use in modern society translated into Latin, in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: Argentinian catholic faithfuls wait for the "fumata" ,(or smoke), which is the announcement to the outer world by a conclave that a Papal has or hasn't been elected (white smoke if it has been electe; black smoke if it hasn't), in Saint Peter's square  in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
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  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: Thousands of rain-soaked faithfuls wait for the announcement of the new pope after a puff  of white smoke came out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where the conclave took place, announcing to the outer world that a new Pope had been elected, in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013. The 115 cardinals picked a new pope among their midst on the second day of the conclave, choosing Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina, the first South American pope to lead the church. Jose Mario Bergoglio, called Francis I, is the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
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  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: A puff of white smoke comes out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where the conclave is taking place, announces to the outer world that a new Pope has been elected, in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013. The 115 cardinals picked a new pope among their midst on the second day of the conclave, choosing Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina, the first South American pope to lead the church. Jose Mario Bergoglio, called Francis I, is the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130313_ADAC_Conclave__MG_6061.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: (L-R) Dr. Hans-Peter Fischer, rector of Collegio Teutonico, is here in the cemetery of the Collegio Teutonico, in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013. The Collegio Teutonico is the German College, the oldest German foundation in Rome, that was established and maintained at the Vatican for the education of future ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church of German nationality. The college continues to assist poor Germans who come to Rome, either to visit the holy places or in search of occupation...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130313_ADAC_Conclave__MG_5482.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: (L-R) Dr. Hans-Peter Fischer, rector of Collegio Teutonico, is interviewed by journalist Barbara Baumgartner, at the cemetery of the Collegio Teutonico, in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013. The Collegio Teutonico is the German College, the oldest German foundation in Rome, that was established and maintained at the Vatican for the education of future ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church of German nationality. The college continues to assist poor Germans who come to Rome, either to visit the holy places or in search of occupation...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130313_ADAC_Conclave__MG_5378.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: A view of the cemetery of the Collegio Teutonico, or German College - the oldest German foundation in Rome, established and maintained at the Vatican for the education of future ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church of German nationality, in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013. The college continues to assist poor Germans who come to Rome, either to visit the holy places or in search of occupation...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130313_ADAC_Conclave__MG_5359.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 12 MARCH 2013: (L-R) Portraits of the last 7 popes dressed by the Gammarellis (Benedict XVI, John Paul II, John Paul I, Paul VI, John XXIII, Pius XII and Pius XI), are hanged on a wall at the entrance of the Gammarelli tailor shop, a family owned business since 1798 working for the Roman clergy, that has dressed popes for generations, in Rome, Italy, on March 12, 2013...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals are set to enter the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
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  • VATICAN CITY - 12 MARCH 2013: After the Pro Eligendo Pontifice Mass, or the Mass for the Election of the Roman Pontiff, the Swiss guards march from the nave towards the exit of Saint Peter's Basilica, in Vatican City, on March 12, 2013...After the mass, the 115 cardinals are set to enter the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130312_ADAC_Conclave__MG_4409.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 12 MARCH 2013: After the Pro Eligendo Pontifice Mass, or the Mass for the Election of the Roman Pontiff, the 115 cardinals walk towards the Domus Sanctae Marthae (or Saint Marta's House), a guest house for the cardinals during the conclave,   before entering Sistine Chapel in the afternoon, in Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, on March 12, 2013...After the mass, the 115 cardinals are set to enter the Conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130312_ADAC_Conclave__MG_4302.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 12 MARCH 2013: (L-R) A Swiss guard and a Vatican gendarme monitor Saint Peter's Basilica during the Pro Eligendo Pontifice Mass, or the Mass for the Election of the Roman Pontiff, with the 115 cardinals that will elect the new Pope, in Vatican City, on March 12, 2013...After the mass, 115 cardinals are set to enter the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130312_ADAC_Conclave__MG_4026.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 14 MARCH 2013: Notker Wolf, 72, abbot primate of the Benedictine Confederation of the Order of Saint Benedict, poses for a portrait on the terrace of the Collegio Sant'Anselmo in Rome, Italy, on March 14, 2013...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130314_ADAC_Conclave__MG_9702.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: A view of the facade of Saint Peter's Basilica, as the new pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina appears at the central balcony, while the 114 cardinals are on the side balconies, in Saint Peter's square,  Vatican City, on March 13, 2013...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130313_ADAC_Conclave__MG_6594.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: The new pope, Argentinian cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio appears at the central  balcony of St Peter's Basilica's  after being elected the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on the second day of the conclave, in Vatican City on March 13, 2013...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130313_ADAC_Conclave__MG_6568.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: Thousands of rain-soaked faithfuls wait for the announcement of the new pope after a puff  of white smoke came out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where the conclave took place, announcing to the outer world that a new Pope had been elected, in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013. The 115 cardinals picked a new pope among their midst on the second day of the conclave, choosing Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina, the first South American pope to lead the church. Jose Mario Bergoglio, called Francis I, is the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130313_ADAC_Conclave__MG_6458.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: Thousands of rain-soaked faithfuls in Saint Peter's square cheer as a puff of white smoke comes out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where the conclave is taking place, announcing to the outer world that a new Pope has been elected, in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013. The 115 cardinals picked a new pope among their midst on the second day of the conclave, choosing Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina, the first South American pope to lead the church. Jose Mario Bergoglio, called Francis I, is the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130313_ADAC_Conclave__MG_6325.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: Thousands of rain-soaked faithfuls in Saint Peter's square cheer as a puff of white smoke comes out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where the conclave is taking place, announcing to the outer world that a new Pope has been elected, in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013. The 115 cardinals picked a new pope among their midst on the second day of the conclave, choosing Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina, the first South American pope to lead the church. Jose Mario Bergoglio, called Francis I, is the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130313_ADAC_Conclave__MG_6286.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: Sister Laura (center, from Colombia), who studies philosophy and theology at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome, cheers together with thousands of other rain-soaked faithfuls in Saint Peter's square as a puff of white smoke comes out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where the conclave is taking place, announcing to the outer world that a new Pope has been elected, in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013. The 115 cardinals picked a new pope among their midst on the second day of the conclave, choosing Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina, the first South American pope to lead the church. Jose Mario Bergoglio, called Francis I, is the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130313_ADAC_Conclave__MG_6171.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: Thousands of rain-soaked faithfuls wait for the "fumata" (or smoke), which is the announcement to the outer world by a conclave that a Papal has or hasn't been elected (white smoke if it has been elected; black smoke if it hasn't), in Saint Peter's square  in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130313_ADAC_Conclave__MG_5955.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: Al Jazeera correspondant Hoda Hamid reports on the conclave from Saint Peter's square, in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
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  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: (L-R) Friars Charles (from Benin) and Itamar (from Venezuela), both students comuncation at the Opus Dei's Ponitifical University of the Holy Cross, film scenes of Saint Peter's square on the second day of the conclave for a reportage, in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130313_ADAC_Conclave__MG_5751.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: A poster with the 115 voters (elettori, in italian), which are the 115 cardinals entering the conclave to elect the new Pope, is shown in the Vatican Media Center in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130313_ADAC_Conclave__MG_5617.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: Two carabinieri, the Italian military police, monitor Saint Peter's square on the second day of the conclave in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130313_ADAC_Conclave__MG_5553.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130313_ADAC_Conclave__MG_5535.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 13 MARCH 2013: (L-R) Dr. Hans-Peter Fischer, rector of Collegio Teutonico, is here in the church of the Collegio Teutonico, in Vatican City, on March 13, 2013. The Collegio Teutonico is the German College, the oldest German foundation in Rome, that was established and maintained at the Vatican for the education of future ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church of German nationality. The college continues to assist poor Germans who come to Rome, either to visit the holy places or in search of occupation...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130313_ADAC_Conclave__MG_5467.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 12 MARCH 2013: (Front row, from center to right) Sisters Monica (from Spain), Laura (from Colombia) and Kenya (from Nicaragua), who study philisophy and theology at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome, cheer as they see the first "fumata" (or smoke) from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, which is the announcement to the outer world by a conclave that a Papal has or hasn't been elected (white smoke if it has been elected; black smoke if it hasn't), in Vatican City, on March 12, 2013. ..On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130312_ADAC_Conclave__MG_5088.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 12 MARCH 2013: Carmelite nuns in Saint Peter's Square wait for the "fumata" (or smoke), which is the announcement to the outer world by a conclave that a Papal has or hasn't been elected (white smoke if it has been electe; black smoke if it hasn't), in Vatican City, on March 12, 2013. "We don't look at the screen because it is much better to see it live", they said...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130312_ADAC_Conclave__MG_5005.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 12 MARCH 2013: A man in Saint Peter's Square waits for the "fumata" (or smoke), which is the announcement to the outer world by a conclave that a Papal has or hasn't been elected (white smoke if it has been electe; black smoke if it hasn't), in Vatican City, on March 12, 2013...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130312_ADAC_Conclave__MG_4982.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 12 MARCH 2013: An example of a zucchetto, an ecclesiastical skullcap worn by popes, is on display in the shop window of the Gammarelli tailor shop, a family owned business since 1798 working for the Roman clergy, that has dressed popes for generations, in Rome, Italy, on March 12, 2013...On March 12, 2013, the 115 cardinals are set to enter the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130312_ADAC_Conclave__MG_4700.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 12 MARCH 2013: Religious postcards, including images of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, are sold at the Savelli shop, specialized in artistic religous products since 1898, in Vatican City, on March 12, 2013...After the mass, the 115 cardinals are set to enter the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
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  • VATICAN CITY - 12 MARCH 2013: After the Pro Eligendo Pontifice Mass, or the Mass for the Election of the Roman Pontiff, Sister of Mother Teresa walk towards the exit of Saint Peter's Basilica before the 115 cardinals enter the Conclave in the afternoon, in Vatican City, on March 12, 2013...After the mass, the 115 cardinals are set to enter the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130312_ADAC_Conclave__MG_4469.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 12 MARCH 2013: After the Pro Eligendo Pontifice Mass, or the Mass for the Election of the Roman Pontiff, the 115 cardinals walk towards the Domus Sanctae Marthae (or Saint Marta's House), a guest house for the cardinals during the conclave,   before entering Sistine Chapel in the afternoon, in Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, on March 12, 2013...After the mass, the 115 cardinals are set to enter the Conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130312_ADAC_Conclave__MG_4290.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 12 MARCH 2013: (L-R) A Swiss guard and a Vatican gendarme monitor Saint Peter's Basilica during the Pro Eligendo Pontifice Mass, or the Mass for the Election of the Roman Pontiff, with the 115 cardinals that will elect the new Pope, in Vatican City, on March 12, 2013...After the mass, 115 cardinals are set to enter the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130312_ADAC_Conclave__MG_4120.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 12 MARCH 2013: A father holds his child in his arms to help him take a picture of the 115 cardinals entering Saint Peter's Basilica for the Pro Eligendo Pontifice Mass, or the Mass for the Election of the Roman Pontiff, in Vatican City, on March 12, 2013...After the mass, cardinals are set to enter the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the role. The conclave will take place inside the Sistine Chapel and will be attended by 115 cardinals as they vote to select the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
    CIPG_20130312_ADAC_Conclave__MG_3970.jpg
  • 13 February, 2009.Bellerose, Queens, NY.  Sikh musicians pray and get ready to play for the procession of priest Gian Charan carrying the Holy Book to put it to bed at the Gurdwara Sagar. Priest Giani Charan Singh is a priest visiting Queens from the Golden Temple in India. Sikh adherents must take off their shoes when entering the temple. The Gurdwara Sagar  temple is still in construction and is planned to be completed by mid-April. The temple has been built next to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in Bellerose, Queens, where demographics have changed in recent year.<br />
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  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: The soccer trophy  won by the refugees hosted by priest Giusto della Valle is seen here in the dining room of the center in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Giusto Della Valle is a local priest who since 2011 has run a center on the outskirts of town where more than 50 migrants sleep at night.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
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  • 13 February, 2009.Bellerose, Queens, NY.  Priest Wariem Singh waits outside the room where the Holy Book is put to bed by priest Giani Charan Singh from India at the Gurdwara Sagar Temple. The temple is still in construction and is planned to be completed by mid-April. The temple has been built next to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in Bellerose, Queens, where demographics have changed in recent year.<br />
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  • 13 February, 2009.Bellerose, Queens, NY.  Sikh priest Wariem Singh and members of the Gurdwara Sagar Temple pray before the Holy Book is put to bed by Giani Charan Singh, a priest visiting Queens from the Golden Temple in India. The Gurdwara Sagar  temple is still in construction and is planned to be completed by mid-April. The temple has been built next to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in Bellerose, Queens, where demographics have changed in recent year.<br />
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  • 13 February, 2009.Bellerose, Queens, NY.  Sikh priest Wariem Singh and members of the Gurdwara Sagar Temple pray before the Holy Book is put to bed by Giani Charan Singh, a priest visiting Queens from the Golden Temple in India. The Gurdwara Sagar  temple is still in construction and is planned to be completed by mid-April. The temple has been built next to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in Bellerose, Queens, where demographics have changed in recent year.<br />
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  • Mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno (left) applauds his councilmen for delvering the promised expansion project of an irregular soccer field to Don Salvatore Cernuto, the priest of Lunghezza, suburd of Rome, Italy, on May 12th 2013.<br />
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Between 2001 and 2006, Alemanno was Minister of Agriculture under Silvio Berlusconi. In late 2014, Alemanno was investigated in Mafia Capitale,  the 2014 Rome corruption scandal.
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  • PERDASDEFOGU, SARDINIA, ITALY - 30 JUNE 2013: Father Gianmarco Lai (left), a missionary priest in Madagascar, is about to celebrate with his colleague priests his mother Claudina Melis' 100th birthday in St. Peter's church in Perdasdefogu, Italy, on June 30th 2013.<br />
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Last year, the Melis family entered the Guinness Book of World Records for having the highest combined age of any nine living siblings on earth — today more than 825 years. The youngest sibling, Mafalda – the "little one" – is 79 years old.<br />
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The Melis siblings were all born in Perdasdefogu to Francesco Melis and Eleonora Mameli, who had a general store. Consolata, 106, is the oldest, then Claudia, 100; Maria, 98; Antonino, 94; Concetta, 92; Adolfo, 90; Vitalio, 87; Fida Vitalia, 81; and Mafalda, the baby at 79. Their descendants now account for about a third of the village.
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  • MONTERODUNI, ITALY - 29 SEPTEMBER 2017: Father Paolo Paulin, priest of the church of Monteroduni, poses for a portrait here in Monteroduni, Italy, on September 29th 2017.<br />
<br />
The 14th century statue of Saint Michael Archangel, stolen from the church of Monteroduni in  January 2016, is among more than 100 stolen valuable religious artifacts worth more than 7 million euros recovered by the Commando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale (Command of Carabinieri for the Safeguard of Cultural Heritage), or CCTPC. The operation was led by Paolo Albano, prosecutor of Isernia. It was returned to the church and population of Monteoroduni after several months of investigation.
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  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A basketball board is seen here in the playground of the migrant center ran by priest Giusto della Valle in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
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  • SANT'AGATA DE' GOTI, ITALY - 13 November 2013: Pasquale Oropallo (70), a long-tim friend and neighbor of the De Blasios, remember them as generous people, in Sant'Agata de' Goti, Italy, on November 13th, 2013. Sant'Agata de' Goti is the town that Bill de Blasio’s maternal grandfather, Giovanni de Blasio, left over a<br />
hundred years ago for the United States. During World War II, the De Blasios hid their neighbors in their<br />
70-meter deep cellars to escape the German bombings. In 1953, after<br />
Giovanni De Blasio (Bill's grandfather) bought the first television in town, people used to gather in<br />
the de Blasio’s living room to watch it. Throughout the years,<br />
Giovanni used to send packages from the States to his brother, a<br />
priest, who distributed the goods around town.
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  • CATANIA, ITALY - 3 OCTOBER 2021: Rev. Angelo Alfio Mangano poses for a portrait after baptising the six-month-old child Giuseppe Calderone, in the church of Santa Maria in Ognina,in Catania, Italy, on October 3rd 2021.<br />
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Rev. Angelo Alfio Mangano said that spiritually objectionable characters used “threats against the parish priest” to be named godfather, a position used for social blackmail and sometimes usury, he said.<br />
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The Roman Catholic diocese of Catania ended a grace period and imposed a three-year ban on the ancient tradition of naming godparents at baptisms and christenings, arguing that the once essential figure in a child’s Catholic education had lost all spiritual significance, becoming a mere connection for material gain and family ties — and sometimes mob ties — and should be at least temporarily scrapped. Other dioceses, including in the Tuscan city of Grosseto also announced plans this month to restrict the figure, and Pope Francis has expressed interest in the idea, according to the Calabrian archbishop who first floated it to him more than five years ago.<br />
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That tainted notion of the godfather became most popularized by The Godfather, especially the iconic baptism scene when Michael Corleone renounces Satan in church as his henchmen whack all his enemies. But church officials warn that secularization more than anything led them to rub the godfather out.
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  • CATANIA, ITALY - 3 OCTOBER 2021: Marco Calderone (center) hold his six-month-old son Giuseppe that will get baptized by Father Angelo Alfio Mangano (left) in the church of of Santa Maria in Ognina, in Catania, Italy, on October 3rd 2021. “For them it might be abolished,” Mr. Calderone said, referring to the diocese of Catania's decision to abolish godfathers and godmothers. “Not for us.”<br />
Rev. Angelo Alfio Mangano (Santa Maria Ognina) said that spiritually objectionable characters used “threats against the parish priest” to be named godfather, a position used for social blackmail and sometimes usury, he said.<br />
<br />
The Roman Catholic diocese of Catania ended a grace period and imposed a three-year ban on the ancient tradition of naming godparents at baptisms and christenings, arguing that the once essential figure in a child’s Catholic education had lost all spiritual significance, becoming a mere connection for material gain and family ties — and sometimes mob ties — and should be at least temporarily scrapped. Other dioceses, including in the Tuscan city of Grosseto also announced plans this month to restrict the figure, and Pope Francis has expressed interest in the idea, according to the Calabrian archbishop who first floated it to him more than five years ago.<br />
<br />
That tainted notion of the godfather became most popularized by The Godfather, especially the iconic baptism scene when Michael Corleone renounces Satan in church as his henchmen whack all his enemies. But church officials warn that secularization more than anything led them to rub the godfather out.
    CIPG_20211003_NYT-Godfathers_A73-162...jpg
  • MONTERODUNI, ITALY - 29 SEPTEMBER 2017: The Confraternity of Saint Michael Archangel and Father Paolo Paulin, priest of the Monteroduni church, wait for the arrival of the statue of Saint Michael Archangel returning to Monteroduni, Italy, on September 29th 2017.<br />
<br />
The 14th century statue of Saint Michael Archangel, stolen from the church of Monteroduni in  January 2016, is among more than 100 stolen valuable religious artifacts worth more than 7 million euros recovered by the Commando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale (Command of Carabinieri for the Safeguard of Cultural Heritage), or CCTPC. The operation was led by Paolo Albano, prosecutor of Isernia. It was returned to the church and population of Monteoroduni after several months of investigation.
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  • MONTERODUNI, ITALY - 29 SEPTEMBER 2017: Father Paolo Paulin, priest of the church of Monteroduni, poses for a portrait here in Monteroduni, Italy, on September 29th 2017.<br />
<br />
The 14th century statue of Saint Michael Archangel, stolen from the church of Monteroduni in  January 2016, is among more than 100 stolen valuable religious artifacts worth more than 7 million euros recovered by the Commando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale (Command of Carabinieri for the Safeguard of Cultural Heritage), or CCTPC. The operation was led by Paolo Albano, prosecutor of Isernia. It was returned to the church and population of Monteoroduni after several months of investigation.
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  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A bicycle used by a migrant hosted in the center ran by priest Giusto della Valle is seen here as its owner chats with a friend, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2289.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giusto Della Valle, a local priest who since 2011 has run a center on the outskirts of town where more than 50 migrants sleep at night, carries a basket of home-grown beans in the center, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2283.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: The Abillah family, a family of Afghani migrants who children were all born in Europe, poses for a portrait in the migrant center ran by priest Giusto della Valle  in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2279.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: The Abillah family, a family of Afghani migrants who children were all born in Europe, poses for a portrait in the migrant center ran by priest Giusto della Valle  in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2255.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Marzia Abillah (center, 8 years old), born born in Italy from Afghani migrants who arrived in Italy in 2001, is seen here with her parents in the migrant center ran by priest Giusto della Valle in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.  As she read an Italian magazine and chatted with her siblings in Italian, her father Muhamed Delah Abillah (31, left) said: “She has an Italian name. We want her to be Italian.”<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2242.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Marzia Abillah (center, 8 years old), born born in Italy from Afghani migrants who arrived in Italy in 2001, is seen here with her parents in the migrant center ran by priest Giusto della Valle in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.  As she read an Italian magazine and chatted with her siblings in Italian, her father Muhamed Delah Abillah (31, left) said: “She has an Italian name. We want her to be Italian.”<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2239.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A teenager from Kosovo who immigrated to Italy 14 years ago is seen here playing soccer in the playground of the migrant center ran by priest Giusto della Valle in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2203.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Sandra Obodo (left), 26), a Nigerian migrant, is seen here as one friend braids her hair  in the center ran by priest Giusto della Valle in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Ms. Obodo said she crossed over from Libya nine months ago after escaping retribution murders at home and that a second boat she departed with was lost at sea.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2169.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Sandra Obodo (left), 26), a Nigerian migrant, is seen here as one friend braids her hair  in the center ran by priest Giusto della Valle in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Ms. Obodo said she crossed over from Libya nine months ago after escaping retribution murders at home and that a second boat she departed with was lost at sea.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2156.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Sandra Obodo (center, 26), a Nigerian migrant, is seen here as one friend braids her hair and another sleeps at her foot, in the center ran by priest Giusto della Valle in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Ms. Obodo said she crossed over from Libya nine months ago after escaping retribution murders at home and that a second boat she departed with was lost at sea.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2152.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giusto Della Valle, a local priest who since 2011 has run a center on the outskirts of town where more than 50 migrants sleep at night, is seen here in the center, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2143.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giusto Della Valle, a local priest who since 2011 has run a center on the outskirts of town where more than 50 migrants sleep at night, walks up the stairs of the center, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2135.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giusto Della Valle, a local priest who since 2011 has run a center on the outskirts of town where more than 50 migrants sleep at night, is seen here in the locker room with the locker doors warped from break-ins, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2128.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A blackboard used for Italian lessons for the migrants hosted in the center ran by the priest Giusto della Valle, is seen here in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2124.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: The room where a woman and her two small children slept in last night and in which 24 teenagers slept until May, is seen here in the center ran by the priest Giusto della Valle in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2116.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giusto Della Valle, a local priest who since 2011 has run a center on the outskirts of town where more than 50 migrants sleep at night, walks up the stairs of the center with a migrant he hosts, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2109.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giusto Della Valle, a local priest who since 2011 has run a center on the outskirts of town where more than 50 migrants sleep at night, is seen here at the entrance of the San Martino di Rebbio parrish with the sign "Coexist", written a crescent moon, a star of David and Christian cross, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2101.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giusto Della Valle, a local priest who since 2011 has run a center on the outskirts of town where more than 50 migrants sleep at night, is seen here at the entrance of the San Martino di Rebbio parrish with the sign "Coexist", written a crescent moon, a star of David and Christian cross, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2097.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giusto Della Valle, a local priest who since 2011 has run a center on the outskirts of town where more than 50 migrants sleep at night, picks the soccer trophy the refugees he hosts won in a tournament for National Refugee Day this month in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2086.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 24 NOVEMBER 2016: Thomas Williams, Rome Bureau Chief for Breitbart News, poses for a portrait in St. Peter's square, Vatican City, on November 24th 2016.<br />
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Thomas Williams is an American Theologian, author, consultant, former priest of the Legion of Christand spokesman and spokesman of the order. In 2012, he admitted to fathering a love child several years before with Elizabeth Lev, the daughter of Mary Anne Glendon, the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See and one of the most powerful Americans in the church. The news of the love child further tarnished the already shaky reputation of the Legion of Christ after the 2009 revelation that the religious group’s founder, Rev. Marcial Maciel, was a drug addict and a pedophile who fathered numerous children.<br />
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Breitbart News is a conservative news website founded in 2007. Stephen Bannon, chairman of Breitbart News, was appointed chief White House strategist for President-elect Donald J. Trump
    CIPG_20161124_NYT-Breitbart_5M3_7278.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 24 NOVEMBER 2016: Thomas Williams, Rome Bureau Chief for Breitbart News, poses for a portrait in St. Peter's square, Vatican City, on November 24th 2016.<br />
<br />
Thomas Williams is an American Theologian, author, consultant, former priest of the Legion of Christand spokesman and spokesman of the order. In 2012, he admitted to fathering a love child several years before with Elizabeth Lev, the daughter of Mary Anne Glendon, the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See and one of the most powerful Americans in the church. The news of the love child further tarnished the already shaky reputation of the Legion of Christ after the 2009 revelation that the religious group’s founder, Rev. Marcial Maciel, was a drug addict and a pedophile who fathered numerous children.<br />
<br />
Breitbart News is a conservative news website founded in 2007. Stephen Bannon, chairman of Breitbart News, was appointed chief White House strategist for President-elect Donald J. Trump
    CIPG_20161124_NYT-Breitbart_5M3_7232.jpg
  • VATICAN CITY - 24 NOVEMBER 2016: Thomas Williams, Rome Bureau Chief for Breitbart News, poses for a portrait in St. Peter's square, Vatican City, on November 24th 2016.<br />
<br />
Thomas Williams is an American Theologian, author, consultant, former priest of the Legion of Christand spokesman and spokesman of the order. In 2012, he admitted to fathering a love child several years before with Elizabeth Lev, the daughter of Mary Anne Glendon, the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See and one of the most powerful Americans in the church. The news of the love child further tarnished the already shaky reputation of the Legion of Christ after the 2009 revelation that the religious group’s founder, Rev. Marcial Maciel, was a drug addict and a pedophile who fathered numerous children.<br />
<br />
Breitbart News is a conservative news website founded in 2007. Stephen Bannon, chairman of Breitbart News, was appointed chief White House strategist for President-elect Donald J. Trump
    CIPG_20161124_NYT-Breitbart_5M3_7229.jpg
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