While the requirement for celibacy remains for all priests, the newly approved guidelines encourage churches to view ...

More than 3,000 Italians participated in the survey carried out in January, expressing their opinion on the challenges facing ...

Homosexual men can train to become Catholic priests in Italy but not if they "support ... his papacy encouraged a more inclusive Roman Catholic Church, including for LGBTQ Catholics, even though ...

An inquiry into sexual abuse by priests in one northern Italian diocese Monday reported 60 cases since 1964, in what it called the Catholic-majority country's first independent study into the problem.

Dozens of sex abuse cases committed by members of the clergy over six decades emerged on Monday from an independent report into a northern Italian diocese that dug deeper into the past than others ...

The Vatican has given its blessing to a document suggesting that those with same-sex attraction can pursue the priesthood in Italy ...

Italy ’s first-ever report on Catholic clerical sexual abuse, from the diocese of Bozen-Brixen in South Tyrol, has revealed ...

They do not change the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching that “homosexual ... Elisabetta Povoledo is a reporter based in Rome, covering Italy, the Vatican and the culture of the region.

This may be the year to skip Rome—or Italy entirely. The Roman Catholic Church is celebrating a jubilee year, a roughly yearlong tradition dating to the early 14th century. During jubilees ...