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Hello everyone, I'm an italian guy. I ended up on this forum for pure curiosity and after reading this thread I have to say my perception of catholic religion seems to be quite different from yours, it's highly probable that it is in someway different from the american one (just to make an example: there's almost no case of pedophilia and homosexuality in the clergy when comparing data with the american catholic church).
I however am not writing here to defend the catholic church, I'm not catholic so I couldn't care less.
Because of my nationality I'm more concerned about the point 3: the slaughter of kittens. I can't verify what you wrote as the the article you linked doesn't exists anymore and the "Italian Association for the Protection of Animals and the Environment" is changing website (so all articles are offline). The superstition about a black cat crossing your path is well known but it's (at least from what I know about the places where I live) regarded as such: an old weird superstition, it's more likely to make jokes out of it and I've never met anyone really believing in it, and if I would he/she would most probably be regarded ad a schizophrenic fool. I have no problem believing that this superstition came from church in the middle age, but even catholics would now treat it as a stupid superstition, and actually believing in it would be regarded as blasphemy. If the data posted are really true the only I can think is that the guilty are some incredibly ignorant folk from the wild southern villages (some of them in Sicily still speak ancient greek, so no surprise), educated people have nothing to do with that.
The only reason I wrote this is to avoid someone would think that coming here could mean seeing people killing kittens, I live in Rome and there is loads of cats living in the ancient ruins, many of them are black.
On a side note, don't you consider this emoticon blasphemous? --->
I however am not writing here to defend the catholic church, I'm not catholic so I couldn't care less.
Because of my nationality I'm more concerned about the point 3: the slaughter of kittens. I can't verify what you wrote as the the article you linked doesn't exists anymore and the "Italian Association for the Protection of Animals and the Environment" is changing website (so all articles are offline). The superstition about a black cat crossing your path is well known but it's (at least from what I know about the places where I live) regarded as such: an old weird superstition, it's more likely to make jokes out of it and I've never met anyone really believing in it, and if I would he/she would most probably be regarded ad a schizophrenic fool. I have no problem believing that this superstition came from church in the middle age, but even catholics would now treat it as a stupid superstition, and actually believing in it would be regarded as blasphemy. If the data posted are really true the only I can think is that the guilty are some incredibly ignorant folk from the wild southern villages (some of them in Sicily still speak ancient greek, so no surprise), educated people have nothing to do with that.
The only reason I wrote this is to avoid someone would think that coming here could mean seeing people killing kittens, I live in Rome and there is loads of cats living in the ancient ruins, many of them are black.
On a side note, don't you consider this emoticon blasphemous? --->
Or are you so attached to your Vespa you don't take trains?
Your politicians are either porn stars, mafia, related to Mussolini, or should have been in jail a long time ago. 
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