C onflicting SIGNALS are reaching the new American administration from Rome. And some carry a whiff of incense. While Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, was preparing to fly to Washington to ...

He hails a fantastic woman sweeping all before her in Europe. She praises a strong and shrewd defender of the West. Donald ...

Forty-six Democrats crossed party lines in voting to pass a bill requiring undocumented immigrants arrested for violent ...

Indeed, in theory, Meloni has much to benefit by being in Trump's good books. NATO member Italy has a big trade surplus with ...

When Elon Musk performed a gesture that many saw as a fascist gesture, his supporters claimed it was a Roman salute. So ...

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni has emerged as the US president’s favourite EU interlocutor, with hopes growing she could talk him out ...

ROME — Pope Francis said Donald Trump’s plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a “disgrace,” as he weighed ...

The pope’s comments provided the latest indication of a potential rekindling of frictions between the Vatican and the next ...

The Catholics surrounding Trump’s second term are best represented by his vice president, JD Vance, who converted to ...

But with Trump preparing to rip up federal regulation and rethink the parameters of government action, the EU’s moves look altogether more tentative. “The engagement is not to deregulate, but to ...

The Catholics surrounding Trump’s second term are best represented by his vice president, JD Vance, who converted to ...

With Donald Trump’s inauguration as president on Monday, we contemplate the impact his administration could have on our democracy. Historians Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Timothy Snyder have drawn from ...