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Pope Francis expresses concern about Italy’s low birth rate
Pope Francis on Monday received the prefects of the Italian Republic in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace. Read more
Italian bishop suspends selecting godparents for baptism and sponsors for confirmation
Bishop Mario Vaccari of Massa Carrara-Pontremoli in Italy said he made his decision because “emotional ties” have been prioritized over... Read more
Climate activists vandalize St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy
Climate activists vandalized the facade of the nearly 1,000-year-old St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy, on Thursday. Read more
PHOTOS: Pope Francis honors Virgin Mary on solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
Pope Francis prayed in front of a statue of the Immaculate Conception near Rome’s Spanish Steps, which sits atop a... Read more
Italy’s ‘most handsome man’ leaves modeling career to become a priest
Edoardo Santini, considered “the most handsome man in Italy,” has decided to leave his promising career as a model and... Read more
Pope Francis at general audience: ‘The Spirit is the protagonist’ of evangelization
Pope Francis’ catechetical series on the essential components of the proclamation of the Gospel culminated with a fourth and final... Read more
Climate activists disrupt archbishop’s Mass in Turin
Activists with the climate group Extinction Rebellion interrupted Mass at the Turin Cathedral on Sunday while reading aloud from the... Read more
Pope Francis meets with professional soccer team founded by a Catholic religious
Pope Francis met Wednesday with professional soccer players from the Celtic Football Club, a team founded by an Irish Catholic... Read more
Giorgia Meloni condemns vandalism of pro-life center in Rome
The Italian prime minister has condemned the vandalism of a pro-life organization’s headquarters in Rome perpetrated during a protest. Read more
Pope Francis has emotional meeting with African migrant who lost his wife and daughter
Mbengue Nyimbilo Crepin shared his story during a meeting at the pope’s Vatican City residence Casa Santa Marta on Nov.... Read more
Pope meets with priests, families to confront poverty, social marginalization
Pope Francis met with priests of Rome’s 17th prefecture in the Parish of Santa Maria Madre dell’Ospitalità in Villa Verde... Read more
Italian Senate launches inquiry into disappearance of Vatican Girl and another missing teen
Emanuela Orlandi, the teenage daughter of an envoy of the Prefecture of the Papal Household, disappeared June 22, 1983, after... Read more
Indi Gregory case: Baby to be removed from life support Thursday despite parents’ pleas
A terminally ill baby in England is set to be removed from life support following a judge’s ruling, despite the... Read more
Vatican hospital offers to treat critically ill baby denied life support in Britain
Bambino Gesù hospital has offered to treat 8-month-old Indi Gregory after a British court ruled that she be removed from... Read more
Pope Francis on women deacons: ‘Holy orders is reserved for men’
Pope Francis reaffirmed the impossibility of women becoming priests, or even modern Church deacons, in an interview for a book... Read more
One Sicilian town’s centuries-old devotion to the Holy Cross
For hundreds of years, the town of Montemaggiore Belsito has marked the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross... Read more
Documents identify thousands of Jews hidden by Catholic religious during Nazi occupation of Rome
The newly rediscovered documentation references more than 4,300 people hidden by 100 women’s religious congregations and 55 men’s religious congregations. Read more
Body of saint, patron of African Americans, significantly damaged in Sicilian church fire
St. Benedict the Moor, a 16th-century Franciscan whose incorrupt body was interned at Santa Maria di Gesù Parish in Sicily,... Read more
Pope Francis telegrams Greece and Italy to express concerns about wildfires and storms
Recent wildfires devastated large parts of Greece and left several people dead while storms in Italy damaged buildings and caused... Read more
Frassati pilgrimage takes Catholics ‘to the heights’ as they walk in Blessed Pier Giorgio’s footsteps
The Frassati Hiking Pilgrimage organized by Creatio brings individuals to the same mountains Frassati climbed. Read more
