Responding to the appeal for city authorities to clean up the mess around churches, Mayor Leonardo Domenici said Wednesday that Florence is no worse off than anywhere else in Italy. Catholic ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Italian activists fighting sexual abuse by Catholic clergy decry the 'conspiracy of silence' between the Italian church and state. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Recent reports on ...

formalizing his abandonment of the Catholic Church, and Nanetti became one of an increasing, though hard to quantify, number of Italians who have been “de-baptized.” Every year in Italy ...

Across Italy there are houses of prayer run by the Ricostruttori (Reconstructors) community, a Catholic movement dedicated to people who are far from the Church but attracted to spirituality ...

In Italy, where it’s basically impossible to find a square inch of space that isn’t with easy acoustical reach of a nearby church tower ... Leonardo Guerri in Florence lost a long-running ...

During his life, Acutis used his technological skills to spread awareness of the Catholic faith ... after falling from her bicycle in Florence, Italy, where she was studying.

For the first time, the arm of St. Jude will leave Italy and tour churches, schools, prisons, and more across the United States beginning this month, a Catholic evangelization ministry announced ...

The dome of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, as seen from Rome. Are Italy and the Catholic Church impossible to separate? (Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP) As Rome prepares to host the 2025 Jubilee, ...