A coastal town in northern Italy is in disarray after its far-right mayor introduced a series of policies aimed against its immigrant Muslim population, with the latest being a ban on Muslim prayer passed in November last year.
While many churches worldwide celebrated Christmas last year by sticking to longstanding traditions, a church in a town in Italy did something different, especially when setting up the Nativity scene, often a centerpiece in many communities and churches.
The Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Capocastello di Mercogliano became the center of controversy in Italy after it set up a Nativity scene featuring two mothers instead of Joseph and Mary's traditional setup.
Almost two months after a woman in Italy was exposed for fraud involving a statue of the Virgin Mary, Pope Francis reminded the faithful that apparitions involving the Madonna are “not always real.”
Virgin Mary apparitions ‘not always real’, says Pope after statue row https://t.co/BPZ4LP6VrT
An Italian woman given the moniker “The Saint” mysteriously left a lakeside town near Rome after a private investigator opened a judicial investigation against her after claiming that the Virgin Mary statue she brought shed tears of blood.
‘The Saint’ leaves Italian town after case opened into statue’s ‘tears of blood’ https://t.co/L43YZZaXOi
On December, 9; the Roman Catholic Diocese of Noto posted an apology for Bishop Antonio Stagliano's comment saying Santa Clause is not real. The apology came after the parents of the children were outraged at the bishop's statement.
In September 2019, Mattia Nanetti filled out a de-baptism form he found online and sent it, along with a letter explaining why, to his parish church. Two weeks later, sbattezzo was written next to his name in his parish’s baptism registry. Sbattezzo means he is de-baptized in Italian.
The Italian "pusher priest," Fr. Francesco Spagnesi, was arrested on September 14, 2021. He was charged with importing, using, and selling drugs, including the date-rape-drug GHB, which he imported from the Netherlands. Fr.
The Vatican had sent a letter to the Italian government to request a change in a new anti-homophobia law to be passed. On June 17th, a "verbal note" by the Vatican's secretary of relation with states, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, was delivered to the Italian embassy, as confirmed by a spokesperson of the Vatican.
