VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Catholic groups on Tuesday accused Italy's Church of an "institutional failure" to confront clergy sexual abuse, and demanded an independent national inquiry mirroring ones ...

ANALYSIS: Italy’s latest synodal document exposes the tension between pastoral innovation and fidelity to Catholic teaching.

Francesco Zanardi has spent the past 12 years documenting sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests in Italy, filling a vacuum he says is caused by the refusal of the country's Church thus far to ...

The Catholic Church in Italy held its first national day of prayer for victims and survivors of sexual abuse on Thursday. Archbishop Lorenzo Ghizzoni of Ravenna-Cervia, president of the Italian ...

ROME (Reuters) -Nearly 4,400 people have been abused by Catholic priests in Italy in cases reported since 2020, a victims' group alleged on Friday, renewing pressure on bishops to confront a crisis ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday named a bishop in his own image, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, as the new head of the Italian bishops conference, as the Italian Catholic Church comes under mounting pressure to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Italy’s Catholic bishops on Thursday provided their first-ever accounting of clergy sexual abuse, but Italy’s main survivor advocate said it was “shamefully” inadequate given it ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Italian activists fighting sexual abuse by Catholic clergy decry the 'conspiracy of silence' between the Italian church and state. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Recent reports on the ...

The Plenary Assembly of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) will not be held in May, as it traditionally has for more than 50 years, for reasons that underscore the challenges of putting Pope ...

ROME – Visitors planning a trip to Rome and hoping to save some money by staying in a monastery, convent or any other church-run facility might do well to lock their rates in now, because many of ...