A country is gripped by bitter political partisan debates and insecurities about its own economy. A nonconformist, ...

Proudly he escorted Mussolini upstairs, to the Pope’s private library. There Il Duce knelt solemnly, kissed not the toe but the Ring of the Fisherman. They chatted 55 minutes, which was consider ...

Pope Francis has made history by becoming the ... how his Italian ancestors moved to South America to escape Mussolini’s fascist rule. Through this, the book covers not just the circumstances ...

Pope Francis’ grandparents — paternal and maternal — came from the same part of Italy, Piedmont. Both sides were intensely political. They fought against Benito Mussolini and his fascists.