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The building housing the most important Italian newspaper, "Corriere della sera" in via Solferino in Milan (Italy). It was projected by Luca Beltrami in 1904. Picture by Giovanni Dall'Orto, January 20 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) In a case that is rapidly gaining national attention, the Italian government ’s education ministry has threatened a “severe” response to a Catholic school in northern Italy that sacked a teacher believed to be a lesbian. Education Minister Stefania Giannini told  La Repubblica  that her office has started an investigation into the decision of the school’s headmistress not to renew the contract of a female teacher out of a need to protect the “moral ethics” of “the school’s  environment.” Mother Eugenia Libratore, a religious sister of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the headmistress of Sacro Cuore school in Trent, said the teacher, who has not been named in the press, was “adequate and professional.” She added, how...

ROME , August 5, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Today’s session of the Italian Lower House is the last opportunity Deputies will have to discuss a highly contentious “anti- homophobia ” law that opponents have said will shut down and criminalize any public opposition to “gay marriage,” civil unions, or homosexuals adopting children. Avvenire , the official newspaper of the Italian Catholic bishops’ conference, has said that, as in Britain, this law could usher in prosecutions against religious associations or clergy who publicly denounce the homosexual act as a sin. The strongest objections have warned that Italy could be following the same path as Britain by introducing a law that would strike at freedom of thought, expression, and religious belief, all rights that are explicitly defined by the Constitution. Critics of the bill, who include constitutional legal experts as well as the Italian Catholic bishops, have warned that the bill will make it a criminal act to publicl...