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 The turmoil surrounding Italy's third-largest bank has rocked the country's financial establishment and exposed both the government and the Bank of Italy to difficult questions over how the risky deals could have been hidden from regulators. 

Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone said on Thursday that the "most concrete way to change or improve society is to participate in the voting process". Bertone spoke at the presentation of the book 'The Narrow Gate' by Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa and President of the Italian Bishops' Conference (CEI). 

The scene: For 24 years, Garozzo's has quietly occupied a corner in the otherwise residential Columbus Park neighborhood, near downtown Kansas City. It is the only restaurant or commercial enterprise within several blocks, an unassuming red brick building with a black awning over the front door and a large sign in the shape and colors of the green, white and red Italian flag, with the word Garozzo's emblazed on it.  

Italy's talisman as they finished third and second in the 1990 and 1994 World Cups was appointed to the role after the Azzurri flopped as holders by going out in the group stage of the 2010 edition.