In the dispute between the traditionalist website "blog.messainlatino.it" and Google, the court in Imperia in northern Italy has declared the case closed.
The blog published the court judgement on Thursday, in which the judges found that the technology company had seriously violated European regulations on free access to digital services.
The justifications for the temporary blocking were contradictory.
Google has to pay around 7,000 euros in court costs.
During the hearing, Google stated that it had already reactivated the blog on 23 July 2025 - and therefore before the court summons was served.
The operator confirmed this.
As the original point of contention in the ongoing proceedings thus no longer applied, both sides applied for the proceedings to be discontinued.
The court therefore determined that there was no longer any interest in legal protection and declared the case closed.
Allegation of hate speech and contempt
At the end of July, Google blocked the page blocked the page without giving any further reasons.
The blog itself contained a link to the Google guidelines, which included provisions on "hate speech".
Google later informed the operator that the site had been re-evaluated on the basis of the community rules and then restored.
The editor-in-chief of the blog, Luigi Casalini, announced legal action at the time and referred to Article 21 of the Italian constitution, which protects freedom of thought and expression.
The court also dealt with the accusation that an interview with US Bishop JStrickland had promoted hatred or contempt towards women.
In it, he had spoken out against the admission of women to the diaconate. Google had argued that the article reduced women to the role of motherhood.
The judge rejected this: the text contained neither derogatory wording nor statements that ascribed a lower dignity to women, but was part of a debate within the church about the diaconate for women.
The court saw no evidence of hate speech.
Since 2007, "Messainlatino" has been campaigning for the unrestricted authorisation of the pre-conciliar form of mass and regularly criticises openings in the church's moral teaching, for example on same-sex relationships or communion for remarried divorcees.
According to the operators, the site recorded more than one million hits in June alone.