For decades, unwed mothers in Italy were pressured to give up children born out of wedlock. Thousands were sent to America.

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A new book sets out to examine the current state of Vatican affairs through the lens of the nine-year retirement of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. And it isn't pretty.

Books stand in the Palafoxiana library, the oldest public library in the Americas, in Puebla, Mexico, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. (Credit: Pablo Spencer/AP.) Listen ROME – Reporters who cover the ...

Early in the morning on the Via Veneto, famed for its 1960s “dolce vita” party scene, journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi seeks to defend himself from criticism hailing from a very different part of ...

Vatican documents and taped conversations, leaked to Italian journalists and published in two new books, allegedly reveal numerous financial scandals and extravagant expenditures in the Vatican as ...

A church built on cashRENDER UNTO ROME: THE SECRET LIFE OF MONEY IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCHBy Jason BerryPublished by Crown Publishers, $25It may be, as the New Testament says, that the love of money ...

Cardinal Victor Fernandez, the Vatican's new doctrine chief, has come under fire over “The Mystical Passion: Spirituality and Sensuality," a book he had published in 1998.