Tags: Holy See
Italian Catholic Church to pay property tax from next year
Posted: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:53
Italy's Catholic Church will be forced to pay taxes starting in 2013 after the EU pressured the country's government to pass a controversial law stripping the Church of its historic property tax exemption.
Vatican’s use of the law to try to hide its secrets looks set to backfire
Posted: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:52
The small German magazine Titanic is being prosecuted by the Pope over the cover of its latest edition which satirises the "Vatileaks" scandal.
An unbridgeable gulf separates Norway and the Holy See on women’s rights at the United Nations
Posted: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:42
Two very contrasting statements about abortion and contraception were made this week at the 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations.