While the Catholic Church's College of Cardinals is still roughly one-eighth Italian, there is no guarantee that any of their compatriots will become the next pope. After centuries of Italian ...

The last Italian pope died in 1978. Now, among the papal candidates ahead of next week’s conclave, there are several Italian ...

Pietro Parolin could be the first Italian to serve in the papacy since 1978. The 70-year-old is known as a diplomat and a ...

a senior Italian church official sent a message to reporters expressing joy over Scola’s election. The problem was that Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio had already been named pope. This conclave is ...

It’s been almost a half a century since questions could be shut down with the verity: “Is the Pope Italian?” In that time, ...

Church officials are fighting for their building, which they consider a historical staple of the Bloomfield community and its Italian heritage. KDKA spoke to Rita Turpin-Porterfield, one of many ...