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How can an evangelical—not united with the Church of Rome but believing that there is only one holy, catholic, and apostolic church—live and go to church in Italy? Nearly nineteen years ago, my wife Victoria and I moved to Cortona, a small but historically important town in Tuscany. From its Etruscan walls, residents watched Hannibal destroy Rome’s army at nearby Lake Trasimene in 217 B.C. The town eventually allied itself with Rome and, in time…