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Zuckerberg Connects with Italian Community after Earthquake

Federico Ghelli

The Facebook CEO spends a few days in one of his favorite countries juggling around official meetings, Q&A session with college students, morning runs around the Colosseum and...

Pope Francis Meets Grieving Parents of Youth Pushed into Tiber River

Judith Harris

Before his Wednesday audience Pope Francis received the grieving parents of Beau Solomon, 19-year-old U.S. college student who was pick pocketed and then drowned in the Tiber...

Building Bridges to Build Peace

A great new season of hope with Pope Francis. Book launch at Columbia University - Italian Academy on April 21 at 7 pm. The apostolic nuncio to UN, Archbishop Bernardito Cleopas...

Amoris Laetitia: Modernization Without Revolution

Gennaro Matino

After the two synods on the family convened in October 2014 and 2015, the publication of Pope Francis’s highly anticipated apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, or “The Joy...

Italy Celebrates Easter

Juidith Harris

This Easter Holy Week is marked by sorrow for the deaths in Spain of young students, including seven Italian girls, in a tragic bus accident, and by the wanton terrorist violence...

The Challenge of Change

Martha Ciampi

Back in 1992 Rome-based correspondent David Willey published his book God’s Politician, reflecting his 50 trips worldwide with Pope John Paul II. Another of his books, Italians,...

President Mattarella: "Terrorists Will Not Steal Our Way of life"

Judith Harris

In the usually jam-packed St. Peter's square Wednesday, a surprisingly low number attended the pontiff's general audience. As this indicates, although less vulnerable than France...

Vatileaks, Round Two

Judith Harris

All eyes this week were turned across the Tiber and toward St. Peter's, where Pope Francis has stumbled twice in the past 10 days, and the Church itself has been bruised by two...

Immigration: Is it Really Not Our Business?

Gennaro Matino

“Refugees and immigrants,” said Pope “aren’t always really welcomed, respected, or appreciated for the values they bring.”

Church and the Mafia

Mons. Gennaro Matino*

The mafia has not always found an enemy in the Church. Pope Francis firmly asks that those in the mafia convert. It is a just appeal to the members of the mafia, but also to a...

With Two Popes @ Saint Patrick's Cathedral

Natasha Lardera

Sunday 27, 2014: the Canonization of John XXIII and John Paul II. New York City wanted to take part to the celebrations for the canonization of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II....

To Obama: "Arrivederci and Come Back Real Soon"

Judith Harris

President Barack Obama's brief but busy visit to Rome and to the Vatican resulted in an invitation, backed by President Giorgio Napolitano, to return to Italy for a longer visit...

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