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Midnight Mass kerfuffle offers vintage ‘only in Italy’ moment
- Dec 6, 2020
Over the course of twenty-plus years of visiting and living here, I’m often amused by the foibles and idiosyncrasies of Italian life that reflect its utterly unique cultural matrix.
Italian COVID Christmas rules awaken debate about midnight Mass
- Dec 5, 2020
When the Italian government this week issued new rules for the holiday season, among other things imposing a strict curfew making the traditional celebration of midnight Mass on Christmas Eve impossible, it revived debate about the actual time of Christ’s birth.
Leadership may be only antidote to being ‘more Catholic than the pope’
- Apr 11, 2020
However silly or politically opportunistic, one reason populist politicians get traction when they raise the question of restarting normal Church life is because they seem to be the only ones talking about it.
Italy’s 5-Stars step back from Family and Disabilities Minister’s remarks on gays
- 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.
Amid Italy’s crisis, the Church gets back in the political game
- May 28, 2018
As Italy’s political crisis deepens, the Italian bishops no longer appear content to stand on the sidelines.
Migrants: Pope’s man in Italian Bishops’ Conference wrestles with political right, left
- 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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