Dozens of sex abuse cases committed by members of the clergy over six decades emerged on Monday from an independent report into a northern Italian diocese that dug deeper into the past than others ...

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Italy is the birthplace of the Renaissance. It boasts works by legendary artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, ...

Bolzano-Brixen belongs to the German-speaking province of South Tyrol, on the Austrian border, and has been more active on the issue than other Italian dioceses. In 2010, it was the first to open ...

While Italian bishops have been criticised for issuing reports on abuse limited to the 2020-2022 period, the diocese of Bolzano-Brixen decided to investigate from 1964, the year in which it was ...

Pope Francis will install Franciscan nun Raffaella Petrini as head of the General Secretariat of the Government of the State ...

Italian Church Probe Reveals Scores of Abuse ... a far longer timescale than others produced by the Italian Catholic Church. While Italian bishops have been criticised for issuing reports on ...

The still-unfolding international scandal of paedophile priests within the Catholic Church has spurred independent inquiries across the United States, Europe and Australia, exposing the scale of the ...

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