
An American Leftist Gets Elected in Italy
COMMENTARY: What Elly Schlein’s ascendancy says about our current political moment.
COMMENTARY: What Elly Schlein’s ascendancy says about our current political moment.
Giorgia Meloni’s administration has appointed a special envoy dedicated to ‘ensure that religious freedom can be everywhere.’
The Holy Father offered a prayer for Italy on Sunday as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni became the country’s first female leader.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Dismissed by critics as representing only an extremist fringe, Meloni’s Brothers of Italy political party is now leading in polls taken ahead of the Sept. 25 national elections.
In a personal telegraph sent to the Quirinal Palace on July 23, the Pope offered best wishes for the president’s 81st birthday.
Around 300 of the island’s 2,078 priests, and 20 bishops, are in Rome for a pilgrimage and meeting with Pope Francis to mark the 30th anniversary of the Church in Sicily’s Regional Marian Priests’ Day.
The report will cover abuse in the Catholic Church in Italy from the years 2000 to 2021. He said it is due to be released on Nov. 18.
Cardinal Zuppi succeeds 80-year-old Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, who led the bishops’ conference for a five-year term beginning in 2017.
Italy’s bishops will meet in Rome to choose a new leader on May 23-27. The Pope will then make the final choice.
After Pope Francis’ request, the Italian bishops took a different view and eventually told the pope that they still preferred him to choose their president.
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