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| | Pope hits out at new "marriage, Italian style" - Boston.com |
 | | The 1964 classic "Marriage, Italian Style," where Marcello Mastroianni is duped into wedlock by his long-suffering mistress, Sophia Loren, suggests matrimony here has long fallen short of the Roman Catholic church's ideal. |
 | | ROME (Reuters) - The 1964 classic "Marriage, Italian Style," where Marcello Mastroianni is duped into wedlock by his long-suffering mistress, Sophia Loren, suggests matrimony here has long fallen short of the Roman Catholic church's ideal. |
 | | But as Pope Benedict on Monday denounced "subversive" plans to recognize unwed and gay couples, which he sees as an attack on the sacrament of marriage, new data showed a steady fall in the number of Italians bothering to plight their troth at all. |
| www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2007/02/12/pope_hits_out_at_new_marriage_italian_style (591 words) |
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