Pope speaks of humanity’s “shame” in Good Friday procession
ROME — Thousands of people, including nuns, families with toddlers, and young tourists, endured exceptionally tight anti-terrorism checks to pray at the Good Friday procession at the Colosseum, where...
View ArticleItaly plucks 2,000 migrants from the Mediterranean Sea
By Frances D’emilio, The Associated Press ROME — Italian rescue ships have plucked some 2,000 migrants from unseaworthy smugglers’ boats off the coast of Libya, with hundreds of them arriving Saturday...
View ArticlePope Francis decries “vile” attack on Syrians in Easter address
VATICAN CITY — On Christianity’s most joyful day, Pope Francis lamented the horrors generated by war and hatred, delivering an Easter Sunday message that also decried the “latest vile” attack on...
View ArticleUN: Up to 245 missing after 2 Mediterranean shipwrecks
ROME — Two wrecks of migrant ships in the Mediterranean have claimed as many as 245 lives, including those of at least five children, according to survivor accounts given to U.N. agencies and...
View ArticlePope names cardinals for Laos, Mali, Sweden, Spain, Salvador
VATICAN CITY — In a surprise announcement Sunday, Pope Francis named new cardinals for Spain, El Salvador and three countries where Catholics are a tiny minority: Mali, Laos and Sweden. “Their origin,...
View ArticleIvanka Trump asks trafficked women what U.S. can do to help
ROME — Ivanka Trump met Wednesday with a group of African women in Rome who were trafficked into prostitution rings, a private encounter said to have moved her to tears. Trump visited the Rome...
View ArticleHeavy rains, floods hit Italy; at least 6 dead in Tuscany
ROME — Torrential rain in Italy triggered flooding that killed at least six people Sunday in the Tuscan port of Leghorn, including a family of four who were trapped by rising water in a basement. Two...
View ArticlePope devotes Mass to poor, calls indifference a “great sin”
VATICAN CITY — Celebrating Mass with poor people in the splendor of St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis on Sunday denounced those who dismiss poverty as “not my business” and defined indifference to the...
View ArticleFrance to tackle violence on women; Italy grapples with same
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday launched an initiative to combat violence and harassment against women in France, aiming to erase a sense of shame that breeds silence among victims...
View ArticlePope on Christmas: Bethlehem trek’s like today’s migrations
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis in Christmas Eve remarks Sunday likened the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem to the migrations of millions of people today who are forced to leave homelands for a...
View ArticleItaly: Modigliani art exhibit found to be full of fakes
ROME — Consumer advocates in Italy demanded refunds for ticketholders Wednesday after an expert concluded that almost all the paintings in a Genoa exhibition devoted to Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani...
View ArticleElection projections point to euroskeptic shift in Italy
ROME — A rival pair of populist and stridently anti-European Union political forces surged in Italy’s election for Parliament, but without enough support to govern the country alone, projections showed...
View ArticleVatican defrocks former US Cardinal Theodore McCarrick for sex abuse
VATICAN CITY — Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been found guilty by the Vatican of sex abuse and defrocked, as calls rose Saturday for Pope Francis to reveal what he knew about the once-powerful...
View ArticleAmerican teens jailed in Italy in connection with policeman’s killing
ROME — Two American teenagers who were classmates at a California high school spent a second night in a Rome jail Saturday after they were interrogated for hours about their alleged roles in the murder...
View ArticleAs lockdowns ease, some countries report new infection peaks
ROME — While millions of people took advantage of easing coronavirus lockdowns to enjoy spring weather, some of the world’s most populous countries reported worrisome new peaks in infections Sunday,...
View ArticleTexas closes bars, scales back dining as new virus cases hit an all-time high...
The governor of Texas ordered the closing of all bars again and scaled back restaurant dining Friday in the biggest retreat yet amid a surge across the South and West that has sent the number of...
View ArticleSpaghetti Western movie composer Ennio Morricone dead at 91
ROME — Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian composer who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and often haunting soundtracks for such...
View ArticlePope names 13 new cardinals, includes first Black U.S. prelate
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red hat. In a...
View ArticlePope, citing pandemic effect, cuts pay for cardinals, others
VATICAN CITY — Trying to save jobs as the pandemic pummels Vatican revenues, Pope Francis has ordered pay cuts for cardinals and other clerics, including priests and nuns, who work at the Holy See. In...
View ArticleSinging hymns through masks, Christians mark pandemic Easter
VATICAN CITY — Christianity’s most joyous feast day was celebrated worldwide with faithful sitting far apart in pews and singing choruses of “Hallelujah” through face coverings on a second Easter...
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