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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...