Pope holds private meeting with parents of LGBT children
- Sep 18, 2020
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Restorers uncover new details in a Michelangelo Pieta
- Sep 16, 2020
A restoration of one of Michelangelo’s sculptures of the Madonna and Christ has uncovered previously unknown details, including the artist’s tool marks, that had been hidden under centuries of dust and wax.
No crowds delight art lovers in Italy and Vatican as museums reopen
- Jun 3, 2020
FLORENCE, Italy — The Uffizi Galleries, the most-visited museum in Italy, is open after three months of COVID-19 lockdown, delighting art lovers who don’t have to jostle with throngs of tourists thanks to new social distancing rules. Uffizi director Eike Schmidt told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the government-ordered
Then and now, ‘mud angels’ respond to Italian disasters
- Nov 3, 2016
As Florence, Italy, remembered the day 50 years ago when the Arno River burst its banks on Nov. 4, 1966, Italian clergy and religious who participated in relief efforts, known as “mud angels,” recalled the experience as a lesson in theology “with a shovel in the hand.”
Pope Francis says Catholics must be open to change
- Nov 10, 2015
Pope Francis offered a sweeping summary of his vision for the Catholic Church on Tuesday, telling a gathering of Italian Catholics in Florence that the Church must be open to change while rejecting a “controlling, hard, and prescriptive” style. “… It is not useful to search for solutions in conservatism
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