Rachel Donadio

How one nation coped with the prosecution of a Prime Minister. 

Italy is taking drastic social distancing measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Is the Italian press ready?

As French President Emmanuel Macron visits Washington this week, we get the view from France. 

While the great majority of Muslims do not subscribe to the radical ideas of ISIS, after attacks like those in Paris, the message of mainstream Islam is often obscured.

The New York Times' Rachel Donadio reports on the Charlie Hebdo attacks from Paris - including the mourning in France today and the manhunt for the two suspects who are still at large.  

Could the Catholic Church be softening its stance on homosexuals? On the way back to Rome from his a seven-day visit to Brazil, Pope Francis singled that changes could be coming to Ca...

Pope Francis, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was formally installed as pope today. The Argentine pope was elected last week; today tens of thousands of people greeted hi...

Cardinals have been gathering in Rome for their final day of talks ahead of the official conclave: the process of electing the next pope. Rachel Donadio, the Rome bureau chief for our...

Just last year, Silvio Berlusconi officially submitted his resignation as Italy's prime minister, but Berlusconi has announced that he'll be seeking a return to power. Rachel Donadio,...

The pro-bailout New Democracy captured the most seats in the general election Sunday. Antonis Samaris, the leader of that party, will attempt to build a coalition among other Greek po...

Greece is preparing this morning to vote on drastic austerity measures that have sparked nationwide strikes and rioting in the country's capital, Athens. 5,000 police were deployed to Athens over the past two days, to combat protesters with tear gas. Meanwhile, the climate inside Parliament is calm as they prepare to vote. If the austerity measures pass, Greece will be able to obtain a second bail-out from the European Union, and avoid defaulting. 

New York Times European correspondent Rachel Donadio reports on the political and economic crisis in Greece.

According to a report in The Guardian, Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi has been dealing with Libya on a major scale. He was licensed to do $156 million in business with the country, mostly dealing in with military aircraft. This may seem surprising now that Europe is trying to stop Col. Gadhafi, but the two countries have a long and tangled relationships. Libya is a former Italian colony and the two countries still have very close ties. Rachel Donadio, Rome bureau chief for The New York Times looks back at the relationship between the two countries.

An Italian judge indicted Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges that he paid for sex with a 17-year-old girl. He has been ordered to stand trial in April. The prime minister has denied any wrongdoing and is fighting back against charges in the media. Despite the scandal, Berlusconi has refused to step down. The New York Times' Rachel Donadio reports from Rome.

Talking to reporters Tuesday, Pope Benedict XVI had strong words about the abuse scandals that have plagued the church, saying, “sins inside the church” threatened Catholicism, and that “forgiveness does not substitute justice.” The notion that penance is different from justice is significant as the church sees a clash between those who want to protect priests those who are fighting for more transparency.

The New York Times reported this week that top Vatican officials, including the future Pope, did not defrock an American priest who had sexually abused as many as 200 boys at a Milwaukee school for the deaf. Arthur Budzinski is one of the deaf victims named in the abuse case and he tells us how the experience changed his life. We also hear from his daughter, Gigi, who interprets on the air.

Hundreds of sexual abuse cases against Catholic priests have been surfacing in Ireland over the past weeks and the Pope said he will address the crisis in a repentance letter tomorrow.

But his efforts could be undermined by a scandal of his own. Last week, a senior church official said when the Pope was Archdiocese of Munich, he made “serious mistakes” in handling one specific priest accused of molesting boys back in the early 1980s.

 

Just after 3:30 this morning local time, central Italy was rocked by an earthquake measuring at least 5.8 on the Richter scale – though the U.S. Geological Survey measured it at 6.3. ...

Rachel Donadio, New York Times Rome Bureau Chief, talks about the ongoing riots in Greece.