Did Italy’s elections identify the country’s ‘Pope Francis’ party?
Francis is a pope of the peripheries, and in Italy that’s the south.
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by bcadmin | Sep 27, 2022 | Five Star Movement, Giuseppe Conte, Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, Politics, Pope Francis | 0 |
Francis is a pope of the peripheries, and in Italy that’s the south.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 16, 2022 | Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Catholics and politics, Five Star Movement, Giuseppe Conte, Italy, laity, lead, News, News Analysis, Prime Minister Mario Draghi | 0 |
Italian politics has a grand tradition of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and his government is now on the brink of collapse. As one commentator put it Friday, it appears that the “suicidal instincts” of Italian politics are stirring.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 23, 2021 | Cardinal Camillo Ruini, Giuseppe Conte, Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, President Sergio Mattarella, Prime Minister Mario Draghi | 0 |
When it comes to Italian politics, Pope Francis for the most part has played the part of the dog who doesn’t bark.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 4, 2021 | Giuseppe Conte, Italian politics, Italy, Jesuits, lead, Mario Draghi, News, News Analysis | 0 |
As Italy’s politicians decide whether or not to embrace Mario Draghi as the country’s new leader, they’ll make that decision knowing he’s got the tacit blessing of the Vatican and Pope Francis.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 27, 2021 | Democrats, Giuseppe Conte, Italian politics, Italy, lead, Matteo Renzi, News, News Analysis, Republicans | 0 |
Tuesday morning, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte met with the President of the Republic, veteran statesman Sergio Mattarella, to submit his resignation. It’s up to Mattarella to decide whether to invite Conte to try to form a new government, to invite someone else to do it, or to call for new elections.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 19, 2021 | Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Donald Trump, Giuseppe Conte, Italian politics, Italy, lead, Matteo Salvini, News, News Analysis, President-elect Joseph Biden | 0 |
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte faces a crucial no-confidence vote in the senate today, and the Vatican will be watching with interest.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 10, 2020 | Abortion, Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, Giuseppe Conte, Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, RU-486 | 0 |
For almost four decades, Italy has had a basic social compact on abortion: Women and doctors aren’t going to jail over abortion, but it’s not going to be “anything goes” either.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 9, 2020 | COVID-19 coronavirus, Giuseppe Conte, Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, President Donald Trump, urbi et orbi | 0 |
For most of my adult life, Italy has been a global exemplar of how not to run a country, struggling to provide even basic public services such as garbage collection or fixing potholes. Now all of a sudden, Italy has become a case study in efficiency and leadership.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 8, 2020 | Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Church in Europe, confession, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Giuseppe Conte, Italy, lead, mask, Mass, News, News Analysis | 0 |
Italian bishops announced Thursday a deal with the government to resume public Mass on Monday, May 18, which means the first Sunday Mass to be reopened will be May 24, which in Italy is the Feast of the Ascension.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 7, 2020 | Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Cei, Communion, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Giuseppe Conte, Italy, lead, Mass, News, News Analysis, Parishes | 0 |
If early returns are any indication, the way in which the Mass ban is lifted may turn out to be just as controversial, and just as messy, as imposing it in the first place.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 30, 2020 | Avvenire, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Cei, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Funerals, Giuseppe Conte, Italian bishops, Italian Episcopal Conference, Italy, News, quarantine, social distancing | 0 |
While the Italian bishops and government officials continue negotiating a way to resume the public celebration of Masses, the government provided guidelines that permit the celebration of funerals beginning May 4.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 28, 2020 | Bishop Giovanni D'Ercole, Cei, COVID-19, Giuseppe Conte, Italy, lead, Mass, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Religious Freedom | 0 |
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte got a badly needed favor Tuesday morning, as the pontiff essentially hit the off switch on mounting Catholic resistance to the PM’s program for recovery by calling for “prudence and obedience.”
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