VATICAN CITY (AP) — 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.

A redevelopment project in northeastern Italy has uncovered a much older layer of city life: the remains of what ...

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Critics argue that the latest policies, which mandate that citizens can only visit a church if they have another state-authorized reason to venture outside, are an unnecessary constitutional overreach ...

VATICAN CITY-- The new flow of North African immigrants into Italy is putting the Vatican's teaching on immigration to the test. More than 22,000 "boat people," many fleeing political unrest in ...

COURMAYEUR, Italy — In Italy, the days surrounding the Catholic feast of the Assumption of Mary, which coincides with a major national holiday, are typically a time of national relaxation kicked off ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Italy’s Catholic bishops on Thursday provided their first-ever accounting of clergy sexual abuse, but Italy’s main survivor advocate said it was “shamefully” inadequate given it ...

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