For decades, unwed mothers in Italy were pressured to give up children born out of wedlock. Thousands were sent to America. Now some families are reuniting and looking for answers.

Metropolitan Anthony, a senior cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church, was quoted by state news agency RIA as saying he would meet Pope Leo on Saturday.

Msgr. Carlo Alberto Capella, a former Vatican diplomat who was convicted of distributing and possessing child pornography, was reinstated at the Vatican, a Spanish report says.

MANITOWOC – The Vatican in Rome has upheld a decision to close the St. Boniface parish in downtown Manitowoc. As part of an overall parish growth plan in 2019-2020, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church leaders decided to consolidate services and permanently close St. Boniface. The last service there was held Easter Sunday 2013.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Pope Leo on Friday, the Vatican said, a day after an Israeli strike on Gaza's sole Catholic church killed three people and injured several more.