Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Father Natale Santonocito is the latest priest to question Pope Francis’s legitimacy and be excommunicated as a result - Tiziana ...

Italian priest Diego Semeraro, 81, was waiting in line to shake the pope's hand when he began to feel faint ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Father Bernasconi's actions have prompted warnings from Catholic authorities and an investigation from the Crotone Prosecutor's ...

ROME – An Italian priest has been placed under house arrest on charges of aggravated sexual assault against a minor, while also facing at least five other charges of abuse in other communities said to ...

ROME – A well-known priest, who is also a former school director and former head of a federation of Catholic schools in northern Italy, was arrested last week on charges of sexually abusing an ...

The Catholic Church — especially in Italy — was profoundly shocked by the news of the death of Father Matteo Balzano, a 35-year-old priest who took his own life on Saturday, July 5. Alarm was ...

Bishop Simone Giusti informed his diocese that Catholics are not to attend any Masses offered by the excommunicated priest. Father Ramon Guidetti has been excommunicated by his local bishop for saying ...

An Italian Catholic priest has been excommunicated for having publicly committed "an act of a schismatic nature" while celebrating Mass at his parish near Livorno. The priest, Father Ramon Guidetti, ...