Italy's national statistics institute is predicting that the country will see a significant decline in births in the years immediately following the coronavirus pandemic. In a July report, Istat said ...

SAVONA, Italy (Reuters) - Francesco Zanardi has spent the past 12 years documenting sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests in Italy, filling a vacuum he says is caused by the refusal of the ...

New data shows that in 2020, 8.3% of Italy’s diocesan and religious priests were not Italian, while the number of Italian Catholic priests who are missionaries in foreign countries has continued to ...

NEWS ANALYSIS: Dismissed by critics as representing only an extremist fringe, Meloni’s Brothers of Italy political party is now leading in polls taken ahead of the Sept. 25 national elections. Giorgia ...

Catholic churches in Rome were ordered to close on Thursday to help limit the spread of coronavirus that has killed over 1,000 people across Italy. More than 900 historic churches throughout the city ...

Pilgrims have flocked to the Holy House of Loreto since the 14th century to stand inside the walls where tradition holds the Virgin Mary was born, raised, and greeted by the angel Gabriel.

Bishop Simone Giusti of Livorno, Italy, speaks to a fellow bishop at the opening of the annual spring meeting of the Italian bishops’ conference at the Vatican in this May 20, 2019, file photo. In a ...

SINCE last November the Osservatore Romano has ceased to be numbered among Italian daily papers. It has retained its old name and continues to be published in the Italian language, but it has moved to ...

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 the ...

Migrants aboard the Italian Coast Guard ship Diciotti gather on the deck as they await decisions in the port of Catania, Italy, Friday, Aug. 24 2018. An Italian lawmaker says rescued migrants stuck ...

Like most of his fellow Italians, Mattia Nanetti, 25, from the northern city of Bologna, grew up with the teachings and sacraments of the Catholic Church in parochial school. Even his scouting group ...