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The election manifesto of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, recently presented with a solemn pledge by leader Luigi Di Maio, vows to scrap 400 "useless" laws to free up the Italian economy as well as pleasing voters by reforming an unpopular 2011 pen...

The 5-Star Movement's (M5S) proposal to introduce a basic-income benefit, the so-called 'citizenship wage', was a key part of the anti-establishment group's electoral campaign.

If Sunday's general election failed to produce a majority in parliament it is not solely the fault of the 'Rosatellum' election law, according to an analysis by Bologna's Istituto Cattaneo.

Francis also calls for respect of life of Vincent Laurent

Moving moment as Francis visits socially deprived Rome district.

Pope Francis tweeted Friday that "the holiness to which the Lord calls you grows via small good gestures in daily life. #GaudeteetExsultate". He was referring to his recent apostolic exhortation which is about the call to holiness in today's world.

Pope Francis has admitted to making "serious mistakes" over child sex abuse by members of the clergy in Chile.

Pope Francis on Wednesday urged parents to baptize their children soon after birth, thus giving them the opportunity - and the free gift - of having Jesus Christ live inside them from the beginning. Addressing the pilgrims gathered in St.

The unbridled capitalism of the last few decades has widened the gap between the rich and the poor, "generating new precariousness and slavery," Pope Francis says in the preface to a book, Power and Money, collecting his writings on the economy.