Despite its conservative government, a child can now have two mothers in Italy.

When we think of Italian families, many of us imagine a lively scene: parents, grandparents, uncles, cousins, and children all gathered around a lavishly set table having a traditional family meal. However, recent data paints a very different picture.

Many parts of Rome were blocked the week after the Pope’s death. And the whole country was expected to be five days in mourning. But as an evangelical Protestant, Chiara Lamberti prefers to live in a genuinely secular state.

Protestants know that the Pope is not their authority. But often the reasons mentioned are rather superficial.

The king is dead; long live the king! That is how it sounds when a king dies. In the Vatican, it is going differently.