Vatican Warns U.S. Bishops: Don’t Deny Biden Communion Over Abortion
ROME — The Vatican has warned conservative American bishops to hit the brakes on their push to deny communion to politicians supportive of abortion rights...
Italy’s vaccine drive runs up against a sacred institution: summer vacation
An estimated 20 million Italians face the prospect of getting their second shots in the middle of July or in August, when many leave cities...
Europe’s vaccine suspension may be driven as much by politics as science
Once it became clear Germany was hitting pause on the AstraZeneca vaccine, the pressure mounted on other governments to hold off too — for fear...
Vaccine skepticism helped put them in power. Can they inoculate Italy?
The Five Star Movement’s long history of sowing doubt about vaccines may have made Italy’s mass inoculation program that much harder. Specially now when they...
Italy turns to ‘flower power’ to help spread vaccine message
To brighten things up as Italians await the vaccine, the Milanese urban planner and architect Stefano Boeri reached for architectural flower power — designing 1,500...