Pope Francis considers retiring and acknowledges he needs to slow down following Canada trip The 85-year-old pontiff says the week-long pilgrimage showed he needed to take things easier, noting "the door is open" for him to possibly step aside. ABC News · Jul 30, 2022
Italy's conservatives strike deal over candidate for PM The party with the most votes in Italy's centre-right coalition will choose the prime minister if the bloc wins the coming election, the alliance said on Wednesday, putting far-right leader Giorgia Meloni in pole position for the top job. Reuters · Jul 27, 2022
Pope apologises for ‘evil’ of Canada’s residential schools On Canada visit, Pope Francis asks Indigenous people for forgiveness for church members’ role in ‘catastrophic’ system. Al Jazeera · Jul 25, 2022
Italy's oldest student graduates again aged 98 Giuseppe Paterno, who is 98, has become Italy's oldest graduate - again. Reuters · Jul 19, 2022
Analysis-Wasted water saps battle against Italy's worst drought in decades Vast swathes of land south of Rome were boggy swamps for thousands of years until a monumental drainage programme in the 1930s turned malaria-infested marshes into prime agricultural fields. Reuters · Jul 19, 2022
Analysis-Italy sharpens "guillotine" to cut Europe's slowest trials Roberto Bachis, a 58-year-old Italian accountant, was acquitted of two charges of fraud in 2019 after 11 years of trials and investigations which ruined his health, his finances and his marriage. Reuters · Jul 13, 2022
Italian far-right leader Meloni eyes breakthrough in mayoral votes Italians were voting on Sunday for mayors in almost 1,000 towns and cities, providing an opportunity for far-right leader Giorgia Meloni to establish her dominance of the centre-right alliance ahead of a parliamentary election early next year. Reuters · Jun 12, 2022
Bono and the Pope harmonize on climate change, girls' education They didn't sing together but U2 frontman Bono and Pope Francis were in harmony about their concern for the planet and the power of women to change the world when they met in Rome on Thursday. Reuters · May 19, 2022
Pope uses wheelchair in public for first time since recent knee pain began Pope Francis used a wheelchair in public on Thursday for the first time since a new flare-up of pain in his knee has limited his ability to walk. Reuters · May 5, 2022
Shouting man interrupts papal audience, taken away by police A man interrupted Pope Francis' general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday, shouting "This is not the Church of God!" in English and waving a medical mask he had removed from his face before being taken away by police, a Reuters witness said. Reuters · Feb 2, 2022