JASON HOROWITZ

Since Francis made cryptic reference to a Vatican peace effort, the suggestion had elicited denial or bewilderment by war’s protagonists.

Francis said he was doing “all that is humanly possible” to help return Ukrainian children taken to Russia and urged Hungary not to slam doors...

Eduard Habsburg, Viktor Orban’s man at the Vatican, took the post after a career as a zombie movie screenwriter, novelist and cartoon producer. “I can...

A ferry used to traverse the banks of the Adda River, in northern Italy, but drought and an abundance of bureaucracy has closed it down.

In moving from cramped offices to a palazzo, the organization is aiming for more visibility, and to be better able to welcome victims.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has ordered municipalities to stop certifying foreign birth certificates for same-sex couples who used surrogacy, leaving some babies in a legal...

The Western world’s oldest population is facing a crisis of caregivers. Some are looking for a little helping, plastic, hand.

In an ideologically divided Roman Catholic Church, the right has accused him of going too far and the left of not going far enough.

Daughter of Italian and Jewish American parents, Elly Schlein wants to remake the center-left opposition to Giorgia Meloni, if only her party can survive it.

Some still fear an authoritarian turn, but Giorgia Meloni has surprised many by showing a pragmatic streak since coming to power. Now Europe is not...