Five Star Movement

The deep meaning of Rome’s ‘Three Coins in the Fountain’ contretemps
- News Analysis
- Jan 13, 2019
Revenue from coins tossed into Rome’s Trevi Fountain will no longer go to the Catholic Church as of April 1, part of a growing trend of restricting public support for church activities.
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Italian irony: New regime’s loudest Catholics don’t like the Pope
- Global Church
- Jun 6, 2018
Italy’s new minister on the family is right on board with the Church when it comes to traditional family values, but he doesn’t seem to like Pope Francis.
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Italy’s 5-Stars step back from Family and Disabilities Minister’s remarks on gays
- Associated Press, Global Church
- Jun 4, 2018
The 5-Star Movement, one of the two populist parties in Italy’s new government, distanced itself Sunday from anti-gay comments made by a minister from its right-wing coalition partner, saying issues like same-sex civil unions deliberately were kept off their common political agenda.
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Amid Italy’s crisis, the Church gets back in the political game
- Global Church
- May 28, 2018
As Italy’s political crisis deepens, the Italian bishops no longer appear content to stand on the sidelines.
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Church-state distance, if not separation, finally hits Il Bel Paese
- News Analysis
- May 20, 2018
Pope Francis and his team have almost completely stayed out of Italy’s political drama, and the results appear to be a mixed bag.
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Migrants: Pope’s man in Italian Bishops’ Conference wrestles with political right, left
- Global Church
- Jun 20, 2017
The Secretary General of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, Monsignor Nunzio Galantino, received backlash from the country’s far right and left political parties over a new law that would grant immigrant minors and children born in Italy a chance at legal citizenship.
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