The Vatican today condemned as shocking, wrong and myopic a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that Italian schools should remove crucifixes from classroom walls, according to Reuters. "The ruling of the European court was received in the Vatican with shock and sadness," said Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi. "It is wrong and myopic to try to exclude it (the crucifix) from the world of education," he said, adding to the uproar the court"s decision has sparked in Roman Catholic Italy.
