Monthly Archives: June 2025

Archbishop Zuppi’s Meddling with the 8×1000

Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, Metropolitan Archbishop of Bologna and President of the Italian Episcopal Conference and fresh out the conclave, was displeased with the unilateral changes made by recent governments regarding the 8×1000 tax. New procedures for the use of the 8×1000 portion of personal income tax (IRPEF) allocated directly to the State have been in effect since 2024. While we await the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s release of the 2025 distribution data (2021 income), we already know that the… Read more »

Celebrating the Fifth Anniversary of Nessun Dogma Magazine

If there’s a newspaper in Italy where you can read articles that offer a glimpse into a world far removed from religious conformity, it’s Nessun Dogma (“No Dogmas”), the publishing project of the Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics. Every two months, Nessun Dogma – Secular Acting for a More Humane World promotes rights and secular-humanist thought, addressing non-believers and beyond. In Rome, at the Casa Internazionale delle Donne (International Women’s House) at Via della Lungara 19, UAAR is celebrating… Read more »