The miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius, patron saint of the Italian city of Naples, occurred again on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY -- Italy's Catholic bishops provided their first accounting of clergy sexual abuse and revealed Thursday that more than 600 cases from Italy were on file at the Vatican since 2000. 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 ...