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‘Don’t kill me’ wheelchair campaign opposes assisted suicide in Italy

Catholic News Agency|Nov 6, 2025|3 Min Read

Pope Benedict XVI prays near the mummified body of St. Rose of Viterbo, Italy, in the shrine named after her in Viterbo Sept. 6, 2009. Every year on the Sept. 4 feast of the saint, members of the fraternity "Bearers of St. Rose" carry a 98-foot-tall tower weighing 11,000 pounds through the streets of Viterbo. On Sept. 3, 2025, Italian police foiled an attempted attack on the Catholic festival. (CNS photo/Pier Paolo Cito, pool via Reuters)

World

Italian police foil attempted attack on Catholic festival; Turkish suspects arrested

Junno Arocho Esteves|Sep 5, 2025|2 Min Read

Pope Francis prays with Italian bishops in the Vatican synod hall during the general assembly of the Italian bishops' conference in this file photo from May 20, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Francis says he has experienced ‘Christian joy’ amid ongoing illness, recovery

Hannah Brockhaus|Apr 1, 2025|3 Min Read

DDF

Vatican gives green light for devotion to 'Our Lady of the Rock'

Justin McLellan|Jul 16, 2024|2 Min Read

Pro-life

World's ills rooted in too much greed, not too many babies, pope says

Carol Glatz|May 10, 2024|4 Min Read

An image of Blessed Pino Puglisi, slain by the Mafia in 1993, is seen as Pope Francis leads a meeting with young people in Palermo, Sicily, in this file photo from Sept. 15, 2018. (CNS/Paul Haring)

Fight the Mafia by preaching the Gospel, pope says

Cindy Wooden|Aug 22, 2023|2 Min Read

Berlusconi

World

Before Trump, Berlusconi forced Catholics to weigh the political and the personal

John L. Allen Jr.|Jun 13, 2023|5 Min Read

Pope Francis and Carla Rabezzana, his second cousin, sit down to lunch in her home in Portacomaro, near Asti, Nov. 19, 2022. The pope traveled to the northern Italian town to help celebrate Rabezzana's 90th birthday, to visit other relatives and to celebrate Mass the next day in the Asti cathedral. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Visiting his family, pope celebrates feast of Christ the King

Catholic News Service|Nov 21, 2022|4 Min Read

An Alitalia plane chartered by the Pope. (Plinio Lepri/AP via Crux)

Coming to praise Italian predominance in the Vatican, not to bury it

John L. Allen Jr.|Nov 16, 2022|5 Min Read

Giorgia Meloni, leader of Brothers of Italy, holds a sign at the party's election night headquarters in Rome Sept. 26, 2022. Italian voters handed a victory to a coalition of center-right parties and set the stage for Meloni to become the next prime minister. (CNS photo/Guglielmo Mangiapane, Reuters)

World

What does Giorgia Meloni’s victory mean for Catholics in Italy?

Andrea Gagliarducci|Sep 29, 2022|6 Min Read

Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari, co-founder and former editor of La Repubblica, speaks on Italian television Feb. 1. (CNS photo/Cristiano Minichiello, AFG)

Pope Francis saddened by death of atheist journalist whose claims sparked Vatican denials

Anian Christoph Wimmer|Jul 15, 2022|2 Min Read

Pope Benedict XVI lays his pallium on the casket of St. Celestine V, a 13th-century pope who resigned, during a 2009 visit to the Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio in L'Aquila, Italy, in this April 28, 2009, file photo. The Vatican announced June 4, 2022, that Pope Francis will visit LAquila Aug. 28 and will celebrate Mass in the square outside the basilica. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters)

Pope's trip to L'Aquila raises questions about papal resignations

Cindy Wooden|Jun 5, 2022|2 Min Read

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