A writer and two lawyers experienced in international cases are behind the case into Italians who allegedly paid to shoot civilians during the Bosnian War
A writer has alleged that Italian gun-loving extremists traveled to Bosnia to spend their weekends as snipers
A police officer has been arrested for allegedly making disappear, in 1980, the glove of the killer who murdered Piersanti Mattarella, brother of the current Italian president — a key case connected to the assassination of Aldo Moro and the Bologna massacre
Ana María Quispe tells EL PAÍS that the Church is obstructing payment for her psychologist, and that an accused priest is escaping accountability by leaving the clergy. Pope Leo speaks out for the first time: ‘There has been a lot of manipulation of the case’
Traditional private establishments on the coast warn that the middle class can no longer afford to spend the holidays by the sea
The painter Robert Morgan, a neighbor of the Beatle in 1980, looked out the window when he heard the shots and grabbed his camera, but when he focused on him in his final moments, he decided he couldn’t take the picture. So he made a painting
The writer has won a moral victory in court, after 17 years, against a whole movement in Italy, especially on the far right, that downplays the death threat from the Camorra hanging over him
An unprecedented heat wave has seen temperatures soar on the Italian island and experts warn that the record set in August 2021 could be exceeded, now or next month
The case against Prevost first emerged during a confrontation with the powerful ultra-Catholic group Sodalitium, with complicity from elements in Rome: ‘He has suffered greatly during the last year because nobody in the Vatican came out to defend him’
Violent explosions have created two small lava flows and strong tremors at Sicily’s most active volcano, but have not disrupted activity at Catania airport
The most plausible hypothesis suggests that Pietro Parolin failed to break through his ceiling of support, and the Chicago-born cardinal quickly gained the upper hand
Robert Francis Prevost, 69, an Augustinian and former bishop in Peru, represents the triumph of continuity — but with the added assurance of strong governance and doctrinal solidity
The general congregations have outlined a set of pressing issues including sexual doctrine, shared governance, and the Church’s foreign policy
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, from the United States, has become the 267th pontiff of the Catholic Church
The voting process to elect the pope has its own dynamics, and understanding how it has worked over the past century provides clues to better comprehend what may happen now
The cardinals have met in 12 general congregations, but they still do not know each other well and there are no clear favorites, although up to 30 possible names have emerged
400,000 people attended the funeral in St. Peter’s Basilica and watched the procession through Rome. As he spoke before delegations from 146 countries, the dean of the cardinals recalled the Pontiff’s message: “Build bridges, not walls”
Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Emmanuel Macron, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are some of the heads of state expected to attend the solemn ceremony
The Pope acted with energy, humanity and measures to combat the scandal, but the bishops and the Vatican machinery did not always follow his lead and resisted in many countries, such as Spain
The Catholic Church fears the impact of disinformation campaigns on an election that will feature the largest number of cardinals in its history
The pontiff will be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, not in the Vatican, and changes in regulations will speed up both the funeral and the meeting of the cardinals to choose a successor
The pontiff, an energetic reformer of the Catholic Church, has passed away after a tenure of 12 years, the Vatican announced. He was the first Latin American to lead the institution, and the first to choose the name Francis as a reminder to never forget the poor
Questions and answers about the Pope’s situation remain one month into his hospital stay and given the precedent of Benedict XVI standing down
Doctors had to perform aspirations due to a ‘significant accumulation of endobronchial mucus and consequent bronchospasm’ and the pontiff is again on mechanical ventilation. ‘The prognosis remains guarded,’ the Vatican stated
Monday’s bulletin on the pontiff showed positive signs: no more asthma attacks have been recorded, some tests have improved, and kidney failure ‘is not a cause for concern’
The Carabinieri arrested 183 mafiosi from the most powerful clans in Palermo in a raid the likes of which has not been seen since the era of Judge Falcone in the 1980s
In a rare statement, the Pontiff urges Catholics in the United States to reject ‘narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters’