Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa is a Vatican outsider, but his experience in a region sacred to three major religions may ...

If you’re a fan of political thrillers, you may have already seen 2024’s “Conclave.” The film, which stars Ralph Fiennes, ...

The Protestants are making headway among Italy’s Roman Catholics. So said the Vatican last week in a report compiled by the Paulist Fathers, who were assigned three years ago to survey Italian ...

While firmly part of Italy for more than a century, influences from that rich and complicated past can be seen in the ...

After St. John Paul II broke the centurieslong Italian hold on the papacy in 1978 ... especially on a continent where religious divisions between Christians and Muslims are common.

Pope Francis argued that the solution lay with solving the problems in their countries of origin, and urged compassion for ...