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[Catholic Caucus] Dishonest Turin Archbishop Spreads Gay Propaganda Turin Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia, Italy, organized in April a “retreat” for practicing homosexuals, IlGiornale.it (May 5) reported. The retreat's message was that homosexual fornication is “fine” as long as fornication is performed “faithfully.” But “fidelity” to sin doesn't turn sin in something good. The retreat was announced for the first time last year, but Nosiglia “cancelled” it because of public protests. In order to cheat the public, Nosiglia now ordered to hold the shady event in secrecy. It became known only after it had happened. Since Francis' election, the Italian Church is...

Italy fears "another Calais" on its border with France as desperate migrants and refugees are thwarted in their bid to cross the frontier and reach northern Europe. Tighter border controls by the French authorities have created a bottleneck around the Italian town of Ventimiglia, just a few miles from the French border. The Italians are trying to transfer migrants and refugees to reception centres in other parts of the country in order to prevent the development of ramshackle camps such as the notorious 'Jungle' in Calais and the tent village that sprung up earlier this year at Idomeni, along the...

ROME (Reuters) - The release of two Italian women aid workers in Iraq was greeted with joy and relief on Tuesday following three weeks of anguish in Italy over their abduction. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced the news to cheers in parliament, television stations broke into normal programing with special bulletins and out on the streets, ordinary Italians finally found something to smile at. "It's like being reborn. Out of the darkness and into the light," said Annamaria Torretta, the mother of one of the two freed hostages, as she welcomed hundreds of wellwishers besieging her Rome apartment. Simona Pari...