Father Natale Santonocito is the latest priest to question Pope Francis’s legitimacy and be excommunicated as a result - Tiziana Fabi /AFP An Italian priest has been excommunicated from the Catholic ...

More than 550 priests from 21 countries have united to “support Christian communities in the Holy Land and denounce every war ...

An Italian priest is being investigated for manslaughter over the death of a newborn baby left outside the doors of his church. Father Antonio Ruccia, a parish priest at the San Giovanni Battista ...

Father Pierluigi Maccalli, a member of the Society of African Missions, is pictured in a file photo baptizing a child in Bomoanga, Niger. (Credit: Raffaella Russitto/Courtesy Society of African ...

MANILA, Philippines -- With the safe recovery Monday of an Italian priest abducted by Muslim rebels in the Philippines six months ago, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo vowed to step up the fight ...

The priest, Don Nandino Capovilla from Venice, was set to take part in a pilgrimage to Bethlehem along with fifteen others.

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 ...

ROME -- An Italian priest backtracked from his idea to organize an online beauty pageant for nuns, saying Tuesday he had been misunderstood and incurred the protests of the faithful and local ...

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Two Italian priests and a Canadian nun kidnapped in northern Cameroon in early April by suspected Boko Haram gunmen have been released, Cameroon's communications minister said on ...

ROME, Dec 27 (Reuters) - An Italian priest has provoked outrage after putting up an article that said women were partly to blame for encouraging domestic violence by failing to clean their houses and ...

Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, a 57-year old Italian priest, isn’t your typical Syrian rebel. The Jesuit cleric moved to Syria over thirty years ago, came across the abandoned Deir Mar Musa Monastery in the ...