Italian leaders send letters of support to the new pope. Image credit: Vatican

Italy welcomes Pope Leo XIV with letters of support

As white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday evening, a crowd of more than 150,000 people surged into the area around St. Peter’s Basilica. The Vatican confirmed that Cardinal Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, had been elected as the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. Italian […]

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Opposition attack Meloni for not facing Parliament

Italia Viva (IV) leader and senator Matteo Renzi criticised Premier Giorgia Meloni in the Upper House on Wednesday. He called her a “butter man” who was “strong with the weak and weak with the strong” after Justice Minister Carlo Nordio and Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi reported on Libyan official Osama Almasri’s release and flight home.

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