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

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.

An Italian bishop has insisted that the rules for admission to the priesthood in his home country haven t changed amid ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

Italy expects 35 million pilgrims to visit Rome during the Catholic Church’s current “Holy Year” or “Jubilee” that runs through January 6, 2026. In modern times, Holy Years usually occur in 25-year ...