Rome

That’s not a hate crime in Italy.

The Pope also denounced harming the environment, police brutality, and antisemitism without directly naming any current perpetrators.

The books contain “actual curses and spells” that risk “conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text.” Church authorities are giving him the thumbs up.

“We are all human beings and have dignity. It does not matter who you are or how you live your life, you do not lose your dignity.”

From DC to Bucharest, LGBT people filled cities, held up rainbow flags, and marched for their lives.

No, we are not making this up.

The media highlights the possibility that two men holding each other in Pompeii 2000 years ago were “gay lovers.”

The Vatican is bracing for more allegations of financial wrongdoing and mismanagement with next week’s publication of two anticipated books.

“We must think about all families,” he opined, “not only families like my (heterosexual) parents.”

On the pope’s meeting with Davis: “I thought, ‘This is really strange. This is not like him.'”

ROME — The gay marriage debate arrived within walking distance of the Vatican on Saturday as Rome’s mayor registered 16 gay marriages celebrated abroad in open defiance of Italy’s government. Gay marriage is illegal in Italy. Interior Minister Angelino Alfano recently sent a notice to local prefects saying any registrations of gay marriages …

ROME, Italy — A 15-year-old openly gay teen has committed suicide after allegedly suffering repeated anti-gay bullying at school and online, according to Rome’s chief deputy prosecutor, Pierfilippo Laviani.

Lady Gaga on Saturday evening wowed European audiences with a spectacular performance of her smash hit “Born This Way” and an encore of “Edge of Glory,” the culmination of the massise EuroPride in Rome, Italy, in which she called on governments around the world to defend gay rights.