Will a Mass celebrated in an Italian dialect pave the way for translation of the Roman Missal into regional dialects? The question was raised April 28, when Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu, deputy ...

The musical tradition of the Greek-speaking populations of Southern Italy remains strong to this day, as do the variations of the language.

Italy's Griko dialects are classed as endangered by the European Union and Unesco. But could folk music be the secret to keeping them alive? Greece-born Italian student Constantinos Orphanos ...

THE two dozen old men playing cards in the parish hall in Serafina Corrêa, a small town in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, seem unremarkable until you eavesdrop. They banter not in ...