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

Bishop Ivo Muser of Bolzano-Bressanone publicly apologized for mishandling priests accused of abuse during his tenure. His ...

Thieves also target Italy’s coastal areas and towns ... which is one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most important events. It is expected to draw tens of millions of pilgrims to Rome.

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.

Bolzano-Brixen belongs to the German-speaking province of South Tyrol, on the Austrian border, and has been more active on the issue than other Italian dioceses. In 2010, it was the first to open an ...

An investigation in northern Italy has uncovered around 60 cases of sexual assault committed by priests since 1964. The ...

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.

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

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 ...