ROME (AP) — Matteo Salvini slipped the rosary out of his pocket right before Premier Giuseppe Conte began his speech to Parliament. He took it out and kissed it again midway through the address, just ...

Campaigning for next April's general elections in Italy has already begun. The latest actor in the political area is a newly assertive Catholic church. For the first time in decades, religious issues ...

The Council of Ministers has confirmed the law introduced in the Italian Chamber of Deputies last May by the Minister of Justice, Signor Rocco, providing for the recognition of the juridical rights of ...

I HAVE of late frequently been asked by my English friends why it is that I decline to return to my country, and to associate my own efforts for the moral and political advancement of Italy with those ...

The 124th annual Feast of Maria Santissima Lauretana in Niles attracted an estimated 5,000 people from Friday to Sunday at a park immediately south of Golf Mill Shopping Center. Though its Catholic ...

FOR SAINT ANTHONY’S FEAST. IT’S ALWAYS A BIG CELEBRATION IN THE NORTH END AND THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD COMES OUT TO CELEBRATE WITH US. THE FINAL WEEKEND OF AUGUST SIGNALS THE START OF SAINT ANTHONY’S ...

Head of the Italian committee on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Franciscan Friar Paolo Benanti who is also a consultant for The Vatican and discusses AI with Pope Francis is interviewed by the ...

Was it her looks or lifestyle that led the Roman Catholic Church to cause a minor media frenzy by firing an Italian religion teacher this year? Caterina Bonci said Church authorities decided she was ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As Italy considers legislation that would make homophobia and discrimination against LGBTQ individuals punishable by law, the Vatican has been forced to weigh how its own ...

The aim of this study is to validate the Italian version of the Religious Beliefs and Mental Illness Stigma Scale (I-RBMIS): a self-report measure of religious beliefs that may contribute to stigma ...