A Franciscan friar has the pope’s ear on AI and how it can help — or hurt — humanity
ROME (AP) — Friar Paolo Benanti wears the plain brown robes of his medieval Franciscan order as he p...
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Italy’s justice minister nixes extradition of priest sought by Argentina in murder-torture cases
ROME (AP) — Italy’s justice minister has ruled against the extradition of a former chaplain sought i...
Italian opposition demands investigation after hundreds give fascist salute at Rome rally
ROME (AP) — Opposition politicians in Italy on Monday demanded that the government, headed by far-ri...
Pope Francis warns against ideological splits in the Church, says focus on the poor, not ‘theory’
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Amid resistance to some Vatican policy by more conservative factions of the Cath...
Vatican says no heresy in allowing blessings for same-sex couples after pushback by some bishops
ROME (AP) — After pushback by some bishops in Africa, Poland and elsewhere, the Vatican on Thursday ...
The trial of 4 Egyptian security officials in the slaying of an Italian student is set for February
ROME (AP) — Court officials in Rome set a new trial date Monday for four high-level Egyptian securit...
Pope Francis says he’s doing better but again skips his window appearance facing St. Peter’s Square
VATICAN CITY (AP) — For a second Sunday, an ailing Pope Francis skipped his popular window appearanc...
An ailing Pope Francis appears at a weekly audience but says he’s not well and has aide read speech
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis presided at his weekly audience with the public at the Vatican, but...
Pope Francis says he has lung inflammation but will go to Dubai this week for climate conference
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday revealed that he has a lung inflammation but will go late...
Make noise! A murder and a movie stir Italians to loudly demand an end to violence against women
ROME (AP) — After the latest, horrifying killing of a college student allegedly by her resentful and...
Albania agrees to temporarily house migrants who reach Italy while their asylum bids are processed
ROME (AP) — Albania agreed Monday to give temporary shelter to some of the thousands of migrants who...
Ailing Pope Francis meets with European rabbis and condemns antisemitism, terrorism, war
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis met with European rabbis on Monday and decried antisemitism, war and terror...
Meloni pushes change to let voters directly elect Italy’s premier in bid to make governments last
ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s Cabinet on Friday approved her proposal to make the off...
Pope presses theologians to be in tune with challenges of daily life and talk with non-believers
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is pressing Catholic theologians to be more in tune with the challe...
Pope Francis prays for a world in ‘a dark hour’ and danger from ‘folly’ of war
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Amid the latest bloodshed in the Middle East, Pope Francis led special Friday ev...
Italy’s far-right Premier Meloni defies fears of harming democracy and clashing with the EU
ROME (AP) — When Giorgia Meloni took office a year ago as the first far-right premier in Italy’s pos...
On the run for decades, convicted Mafia boss Messina Denaro dies in hospital months after capture
ROME (AP) — Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia’s most heino...
Giorgio Napolitano, former Italian president and first ex-Communist in that post, has died at 98
ROME (AP) — Giorgio Napolitano, the first former Communist to rise to Italy’s presidency and the fir...
Former Italian premier claims French missile downed passenger jet in 1980, presses Paris for truth
ROME (AP) — A former Italian premier, in an interview published on Saturday, contended that a French...
Rifle slaying of a brown bear in Italy leaves 2 cubs motherless and is decried by locals, minister
ROME (AP) — The slaying of an endangered brown bear near an Italian national park left her two young...
Italian leader tones down divisive rhetoric but carries on with pursuit of far-right agenda
ROME (AP) — When Giorgia Meloni was running to become Italy’s first far-right head of government of ...
Dozens saved by Italy from migrant shipwrecks; some, clinging to rocks, plucked to safety by copters
ROME (AP) — Dozens of migrants were dramatically rescued by Italy as they foundered in the sea or cl...