Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Pedro Salinas, Francois Devaux, Francesco Zanardi and Peter Iseley, survivors of sexual abuse, talk to reporters ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Italian activists fighting sexual abuse by Catholic clergy decry the 'conspiracy of silence' between the Italian church and state. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Recent reports on the ...

The Catholic Church in Italy held its first national day of prayer for victims and survivors of sexual abuse on Thursday. Archbishop Lorenzo Ghizzoni of Ravenna-Cervia, president of the Italian ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday named a bishop in his own image, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, as the new head of the Italian bishops conference, as the Italian Catholic Church comes under mounting pressure to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Italy’s Catholic bishops on Thursday provided their first-ever accounting of clergy sexual abuse, but Italy’s main survivor advocate said it was “shamefully” inadequate given it ...