Silvio Berlusconi

Parallel lives? Trump and Berlusconi

By Massimo Faggioli — November 12, 2016
(RNS) Similarities to Italy’s former prime minister should make Trump-supporting Christians nervous.

Italian publisher unveils magazine dedicated to Pope Francis

By Eric J. Lyman — March 4, 2014
ROME (RNS) The publisher said it envisions the magazine being a “meeting place” for the faithful to send in letters, poems and drawings related to Francis’ papacy.

Berlusconi invokes Holocaust as Nazi war criminal buried in unmarked grave

By Eric J. Lyman — November 7, 2013
ROME (RNS) Statements by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi were the latest in a string of recent incidents that brought the Holocaust and Nazi Germany out of the history books and onto the front pages of Italian media.

Pope Francis: A ‘good Christian’ prays for bad politicians

By Eric J. Lyman — September 16, 2013
ROME (RNS) Pope Francis said Christians should not refrain from praying for leaders they do not agree with: “Pray for him, pray for her, that they can govern well,” the pontiff said, adding: “A Christian who does not pray for his leaders is not a good Christian.”
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