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 ...

Father Bernasconi's actions have prompted warnings from Catholic authorities and an investigation from the Crotone Prosecutor's Office.TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images An Italian priest is being ...

Bishop Simone Giusti informed his diocese that Catholics are not to attend any Masses offered by the excommunicated priest. Father Ramon Guidetti has been excommunicated by his local bishop for saying ...

Maurizio Patriciello has been threatened by the Camorra for speaking out against illegal dumping of industrial chemicals on ...

ROME – In a reminder that while some Catholics may feel the Church is changing too much under Pope Francis, others obviously feel it isn’t changing enough, a priest in northern Italy said Thursday ...

ROME – An Italian priest has been placed under house arrest on charges of aggravated sexual assault against a minor, while also facing at least five other charges of abuse in other communities said to ...

Yaounde, Cameroon: Two Italian priests and a Canadian nun were kidnapped in northern Cameroon overnight, a bishop and a government source said on Saturday, months after a French priest was seized ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROME (AP) — Italy’s justice minister has ...

The Nicaraguan dictatorship led by President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, has expelled Italian priest Father Cosimo Damiano Muratori from the country after the priest ...

ROME (AP) — Italian police on Thursday arrested a priest accused of pocketing 4 million euros ($5.1 million) from a Catholic hospital he ran and helping run up 600 million euros ($769 million) in ...

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 ...

VITERBO, Italy – An Italian judge heard arguments Friday on whether a small-town parish priest should stand trial for asserting that Jesus Christ existed. The priest’s atheist accuser, Luigi Cascioli, ...