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Post-pandemic pilgrims in Italy to be given plenary indulgence A new tourism initiative by the Italian bishops' conference seeks to attract pilgrims to the country's many shrines Updated: June 03, 2021 04:56 AM GMT Trending The shrine at Loreto in Italy. (Photo: vaticannews) As Covid-19 restrictions continue to ease in Italy, the country's bishops are hoping a new tourism initiative will attract would-be pilgrims. One way the June 1-Sept. 17 initiative, " Ora viene il bello" ("Now comes the beautiful"), hopes to draw pilgrims is by granting a plenary indulgence to those who visit one of Ita...

Synod process must be bottom up, pope tells Italian bishops Italian Episcopal Conference General Assembly gets underway in the presence of over 200 bishops with a focus on synodality Updated: May 25, 2021 04:35 AM GMT Trending The 74th General Assembly of the Italian Episcopal Conference. (Photo: Vatican Media) Welcoming the Italian bishops' decision to begin planning a national synod, Pope Francis told them that it must begin at the grassroots with "the smallest parish, the smallest diocesan institution." "The synod must begin from the bottom up," he told the bishops May 24 at the spring ass...

...Bishop Simone Giusti of Livorno, Italy, speaks to a fellow bishop at the opening of the annual spring meeting of the Italian bishops' conference at the Vatican in this May 20, 2019, file photo. In a Dec. 18 statement, the Italian bishops' conference said that in 2019 it distributed $1.2 billion received from Italy's income tax apportionment program. The money is used to pay priests' salaries, maintain churches and parish ministries and support charitable projects. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) ...Pope Francis attends the opening session of...

Italian Church distributes $1.2 billion from annual tax fund Money is used to pay priests' salaries, maintain churches and parish ministries and support charitable projects Trending Pope Francis addresses members of the Italian Episcopal Conference at the start of their general sssembly in May 2019. (Photo: Vatican Media) Accounting for its share of Italian income tax distributions, the Italian bishops' conference said it distributed about US$1.2 billion in 2019. In a statement published Dec. 18, Bishop Stefano Russo, secretary general of the conference, said the money provided by the "Otto p...