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After the resignation of technocrat Mario Monti, Rome will see a battle that has brought back the controversial figure of Silvio Berlusconi and his nationalist rhetoric.
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"The Holy See is perplexed and astonished by the initiatives of the Rome prosecutors, considering the data necessary is already available at the Bank of Italy, " the statement said.
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Mr Monti, a well respected economist, is exactly the sort of man that the markets would like to see take charge at this time of crisis, says the BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome, and he has support in many quarters.
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Visitors to Rome can still see some of the dungeons into which prisoners of the Church used to be thrown.
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How would it change our understanding of Rome and the Roman Empire if we could see the corpse all the corpses that provided its foundation?
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With so many sights to see in Rome, the only real way to get a complete picture of this city is to hit the ground running, or in this case, walking.
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"They want to say what the next pope will hear, because he's probably in that room, and they also want to alert the people who haven't spent so much time in Rome just what the situation really is here as they see it, " Cardinal Francis George of Chicago said.
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In the slinging of insults and inanities that seemed to characterize this election season, it is hard not see ourselves as fiddling while Rome burns.
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