your father was a very, very staunch catholic. clearly believed his love of god was the underpinning of his entire life. >> that's exactly right. it was a belief in an inclusive god. it was in the a god that put people in boxes or corners. to do our father's business. that's what he called it. he was interested in trying to eradicate poverty. i stepped back. i had to figure out what made the guy tick. he wrote me letters almost every day of my life. slipped them under the door. mail them. when i got married, he mailed a couple every day. he was a voracious reading. trying to read those letters. go back and understand what he said. understand how he dealt with problems. so many families deal with issues like our family did. we're no different. a little more publicity maybe. but we deal with issues day in, day out. >> oddly, your father seems to have escaped a lot of the fabled kennedy curse in the sense that you look at his life and actually he had a very happy, successful fulfilling life. he put a lot of it down to the love of a g

. >> reporter: where staunch catholics may grimace at the idea of marriage or adoption for gay couplestina, mario's mother says she doesn't see any conflict with her faith: >> ( translated ): same-sex partners in italy cannot share property, inherit pensions, receive death benefits or make other important decisions concerning death or illness. >> ( translated ): we are the same as everyone else so i hope that soon we italians will have a law that makes us feel like everyone else. >> reporter: until then, mario and antonio say they plan to use the court decision to fight for those rights one at a time. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day. there were conflicting reports out of egypt. the state news agency initially said ousted president hosni mubarak was clinically dead, but other reports disputed that account. new numbers of public employee pensions showed 34 states are falling short of their commitments. stocks rallied on hopes that the federal reserve will try again to boost the overall economy. the dow nearly 100 points. many of you commented on our profile of economis

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