Bishop Ivo Muser of Bolzano-Bressanone publicly apologized for mishandling priests accused of abuse during his tenure. His apology came after the publication of a groundbreaking report on sexual ...

The Diocese of Bolzano-Bressanone in Italy made history Jan. 20 by publishing the country's first diocesan abuse report, ...

A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious ...

While Italian bishops have been criticised for issuing ... which produced a 631-page document based on church archives and interviews that found 67 possible abuse situations, including 53 backed ...

IN October 1927, failure by a family of Italian emigrants to sell their belongings in time for their voyage to Argentina may ...

On the morning of Thursday, Jan. 2, the baby boy's lifeless body was discovered at the San Giovanni Battista Church in Bari in the Puglia region, per Italian news agency Ansa. Ansa reported that ...

On Sunday, Pope Francis marked the Day for Life in Italy, which has the theme “Transmitting life, hope for the world.” The ...

Dozens of children in northern Italy were sexually abused by priests for more than six decades, according to a groundbreaking ...

A priest was excommunicated from a parish in Livorno in January last year for calling Pope Francis a “usurper” in a New Year’s Eve homily, which marked the first anniversary of the death of the pope’s ...

Franciscan Sister Raffaella Petrini will become head of the General Secretariat of the Government of the Vatican City State ...

Dozens of sex abuse cases committed by members of the clergy over six decades have emerged from an independent report into a ...