Pope Francis' planned visit to Venice will include a Mass in the city's famous St. Mark's Square, a meeting with young people from the archdiocese and a meeting with female detainees at an island prison where the Vatican has set up its
A survivor of clergy sexual abuse said he hopes a new podcast detailing his case will shed light on the uphill battle victims in Italy face when seeking justice from the Catholic Church.
The podcast, titled "La Confessione" ("The Confession") and premiering March
The Vatican and Italy signed a formal "declaration of intent" to move the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesù pediatric hospital in Rome to the campus of a now-closed Italian hospital by 2030.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, and Alfredo Mantovano, secretary of the
There’s something in the very nature of Italian hill towns that seems designed to create saints. OSV publisher Scott Richert explains that the very reality of having to walk uphill both ways as one goes about one’s daily life in Assisi slows
In the picturesque Tuscan hills of Italy stands a captivating and mysterious sight: the sword of San Galgano, embedded in a stone, reminiscent of King Arthur’s legend. This sword is linked to the 12th-century knight, Galgano Guidotti, who renounced his worldly life
An Italian Catholic priest has been excommunicated for having publicly committed "an act of a schismatic nature" while celebrating Mass at his parish near Livorno.
The priest, Father Ramon Guidetti, dedicated his homily Dec. 31 to marking the anniversary of the death of
By American standards, the Via San Gregorio Armeno wouldn't even qualify as an alley. Measuring perhaps 5 feet across, it's barely wide enough for three men to pass through it abreast. Yet come Advent, the little street in Naples, Italy, welcomes thousands
The Italian government granted citizenship to Indi Gregory, an 8-month-old child suffering from a degenerative disease who is at the center of a legal battle in the U.K. to keep her on life support. After a Nov. 6 emergency meeting, the Italian
Mourners pray for migrants killed in shipwreck off Italian coast; Greece’s worst train crash in history leaves many dead
Archbishop Angelo Raffaele Panzetta of Crotone-Santa Severina joined other faith leaders, local officials and members of the public March 1 in praying for migrants aboard a wooden boat who died in a Feb. 26 shipwreck off the southern Italian coast.
The coffins of
Italy's declining birthrate is alarming, and groups that assist Italian families must do more both in terms of lobbying and witnessing to the joy of family life, Pope Francis said.
"We are living in a serious demographic winter, and we must react to