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Last year, the Italian Prime Minister, married twice, divorced once, living in a separate house from his wife, diverted his flight to Napoli and waited for more than an hour before going to the 18th birthday party of Noemi, a young “friend”. More than one hour party….

Last week, he diverted his flight to land in Rome instead of Milan, and waited at the airport for the Pope who was to leave for a trip in Eastern Europe. He greeted him and accompanied him to the plane. A three minute show.

Indeed both the Pope and Noemi have gowns. Would this the main reason for Berlusconi’s travel plan changes ? Priorities are priorities....preferences are preferences.

The Pope told him that it was with joy that he met Berlusconi. The following day, he strongly condemned the "enlarged families". Priorities are priorities, influencing Italy's politics is more of a priority for the Pope than the immoral behaviour of its Prime Minister.

No surprise, the Italian televisions, both private (his own) and public (controlled by his ministers) had a large coverage of the second, while they are cold on the first (it isnot "news" as stated the director, nominated by Berlusconi himslef, of the main public TV channel.

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Symbols: Obama and Benedict XVI

When Reagan, Clinton and GW signed the law forbidding (or re-establishing) the financing for UNFPA and family planning NGOs that do not exclude abortion, they did so on the anniversary date of the Supreme Courts decision to legalize abortion in the USA.

Obama just overturned GW’s decision. But, although he did so on the third day after he took power, he avoided confronting the pro-life movement and avoided signing it on the same anniversary date. No need to add insult to injury.

Yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI reinstated the conservative bishops excommunicated by his predecessor for being appointed outside of the rules of the Church. One of the main principles of such bishops is the negation of the decisions of Vatican II.

Pope Benedict XVI did so on the day before the anniversary of the calling of the Vatican II by John XXIII. Just to ensure that people understand that he himself is going back 50 years. We knew this but he added insult to injury and just confirmed that he is driving the Church to self-destruction. Thank you Benedict XVI

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Go ahead like that Benedict XVI

We know, you just said that you do not want to be a star. The statement was a little surprise since you talk so much about everything, and especially Italy.

But may-be your statement was “preventive politics”. We just learned in fact that your audience is going down: more than 4 million people attended your audiences in the Vatican and at Castelgandolfo in 2005. Only 3 .2 million in 2006, 2.8 million in 2007 and 2.2 million in 2008. Please start delivering your speeches in your beloved Latin so that the decline will be faster in the future.

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