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...ILEANA ARGENTIN, Rome...
...wheelchairs, and we are put in the common area where other passengers put their luggage." Political will and injections of funding could smooth out most problems with public transport. Europe's rich heritage of old buildings throws up knottier problems. A survey last year by the office of Rome city councillor Ileana Argentin, 40, a lawyer with the genetic disease spinal amyotrophy, found that only 20% of public buildings in the city were fully accessible; wheelchair users could enter some areas in a further 60%, and 20% were completely blocked to them. Argentin understands the arguments for conservation - "Imagine...
...syndrome. U.S. Catholics were confused and perturbed after priestly sexual abuse--and its enabling by at least some bishops--became a searing national issue in 2002. At the Pope's directives, the U.S. bishops' conference proposed a variety of get-tough measures, which were subsequently watered down in Rome. Observers wondered whether that was the most egregious example of papal preference for church authority over lay concerns or simply a function of his growing inability to stand up to his own bureaucracy. Similarly, some thought a younger John Paul would have more forcefully addressed the Sept. 11 attacks...
...attention turns to the College of Cardinals, whose 117 voting members began to stream into Rome from 52 countries to pay their respects and write the next chapter of the church's history. Later this month they will meet in the Sistine Chapel, already swept for hidden microphones, to choose the next Pontiff. There will be plenty of intrigue in the days to come: "The battles to take care of everyone's own interests have been abounding," a Roman Curia Cardinal told TIME. But in the final days many were struck by the sudden transparency of the Vatican's thick...
Daily reports from the scene in Vatican City The New Bishop of Rome Ratzinger Gets a Cold Top 10 Papal Candidates The Conclave's Length Cardinals Do Lunch Chasing Italian Cardinals Reading the Silence The Return of Cardinal...