SIR EUROPA: ITALY; MGR. BETORI (ITALIAN BISHOPS CONFERENCE), ABOUT CHURCH AND TAXES, "WE FEEL ATTACKED"

"We feel attacked; such allegations are so clearly ill-intentioned that they leave us aghast". It was said this morning by the secretary general of the Italian Bishops Conference, mgr. Giuseppe Betori, in answering the press at the press conference for the presentation of the Agora of the Young, with reference to the recent debate about the Church and the Council Tax that has flared up again within the EU. (continued)