“Rome” on The Daily Caller

Rome, Italy (CNN) — Eleven people were killed and 20 others injured, five seriously, when a landslide derailed a train in northern Italy Monday, according to Italy’s Civil Protection office. (more)

Decision time is approaching for the Tea Party movement. (more)

Few things have been more disgusting than the countless priestly sex abuse cases that have been publicized around the globe in recent weeks or the Catholic Church’s mishandling of these crimes. (more)

ROME — Even as Pope Benedict XVI, faced with a sexual abuse scandal spreading across Europe, has called on victims to come forward and urged clerics to cooperate with civil justice, those strong words are running up against the complexities of his past. (more)

Silvio Berlusconi vented his fury at the “amateurs and idiots” surrounding him after his ruling party was disqualified yesterday from two of this month’s crucial regional polls for failing to submit valid electoral lists in time. (more)

Are there any odds in Las Vegas on this yet? (more)

ROME: Airport security chiefs probably thought they had enough to worry about with shoe bombers, underpants bombers and people who forget to put their toothpaste into those little plastic bags. If so, they were reckoning without Pope Benedict XVI. (more)

“The Sopranos” and other television shows about the mafia are damaging Italy’s reputation abroad, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said today. (more)

ROME (Reuters) – An Italian man who argued with his son over Sony PlayStation tactics was recovering in hospital on Monday after the teenager stabbed him in the neck with a 15-inch kitchen knife, police and hospital officials said. (more)

Pope Benedict XVI has summoned the Irish bishops to Rome to discuss Ireland’s clerical abuse scandal. (more)

Mehmet Ali Agca, the gunman who tried to kill pope John Paul II in 1981, has been released from prison in Turkey after almost three decades behind bars. (more)