Italian Actress Avoids Possible Five-Year Jail Term for Off-Color Joke About Pope
A popular Italian actress has avoided a possible five-year jail term over some off-color comments she made about Pope Benedict XVI.
An Italian prosecutor had vowed to take comedian Sabina Guzzanti to court on charges of religious slander.
At a July demonstration in Rome organized against the government of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Guzzanti said, "Within 20 years the Pope will be where he ought to be -- in hell, tormented by great big poofter devils, and very active ones, not... Full Story
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