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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Antonio Messina, pictured in an undated photo, was abused by Father Giuseppe Rugolo, a diocesan priest, who was found guilty in March of sexually abusing two minors when he was a seminarian. Messina ...

ROME – A Slovakian priest who’s spent the last twenty years in Italy has announced that he’s leaving the priesthood in order to marry a woman with whom he said he’s “madly” in love, and with whom he’s ...

Father Jihad Youssef, carrying a picture of Italian Jesuit priest Paolo Dall'Ogli — LOUAI BESHARA In a centuries-old monastery on a rocky hill north of Damascus, friends of missing Italian priest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...