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Is this the modern family according to Francis? From gay relationships to extramarital sex, from divorce and remarriage to civil unions, the Roman Catholic church has...
Millions of devotees remain banned from receiving communion – but meeting of bishops raises hopes of ban being loosened Elio Cirimbelli, a 66-year-old family counsellor from...
The leadership of the Roman Catholic church is bracing for open conflict over its treatment of remarried divorcees as powerful conservatives mobilise ahead of a highly...
Leaders of the Roman Catholic church who failed to respond adequately to reports of child sex abuse by paedophile priests caused even greater suffering to their...
Pope Francis has warned married couples who choose not to have children that they are heading for an old age blighted by “the bitterness of loneliness”. In...
Scientists in Italy say they have discovered a new species of jellyfish in the Gulf of Venice. Sightings of yellow jellyfish in the North Adriatic Sea...
Florence appeals court rules UK student killed by group, driven by desire to bully and humiliate her, not solely by Rudy Guede An Italian court has...
Andrea Barina, the owner of a no-frills restaurant on the Giudecca canal, serves up mouth-watering plates of seafood antipasti and exquisitely fresh fish to a loyal...
A prominent Italian gay rights campaigner and former MP has been arrested in Sochi while watching the Winter Olympics with a banner reading “Gay Is Ok”...
A former commander of the Swiss Guard, the small force of men whose job it is to protect the pope, has said there is “a network...
The Vatican has refused to give a United Nations panel information it requested on clerical sex abuse, in a move that it said was part of...
A 90-year-old former Nazi soldier has been handed a life sentence for his role in a wartime massacre on the Greek island of Cephalonia, the setting...
The eight cardinals picked by Pope Francis to advise him on reform of the Roman curia and the governance of the Catholic church are preparing to...
German archaeologists to use nanotechnology as Italians come under pressure from Unesco over vandalism With the greatest number of Unesco world heritage sites, and state coffers...
The Italian prime minister, Enrico Letta, has condemned as unacceptable comments made by a senior rightwing senator in which he suggested the country’s first black government...