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by bcadmin | Nov 11, 2022 | Associated Press, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Libero Milone, London financial scandal, News, Vatican, Vatican criminal court, Vatican criminal justice | 0 |
The Vatican’s first auditor general and his deputy have sued the Holy See for 9.3 million euros ($9.5 million) for wrongful dismissal, as a new litigious chapter opens in Pope Francis’ troubled financial reform effort.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 13, 2022 | Associated Press, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, lead, London financial scandal, News, Vatican, Vatican City State, Vatican criminal court, Vatican criminal justice, Vatican Gendarmes | 0 |
Cardinal Angelo Becciu made a spontaneous declaration to the Vatican tribunal during the interrogation of Commissioner Stefano De Santis, a top officer in the Vatican gendarmes police force and a key prosecution witness.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 30, 2022 | Catholic News Service, lead, London financial scandal, News, Vatican, Vatican criminal court, Vatican criminal justice | 0 |
The Vatican auditor general said he was surprised by the lack of ethical standards demonstrated by officials considering investment opportunities, including a failed London property development deal.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 22, 2022 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Consistory, Consistory for Creation of Cardinals, lead, London financial scandal, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Vatican trial | 0 |
The Italian cardinal at the center of a historic Vatican trial on corruption and mismanagement, said on Sunday that Pope Francis had invited him to the consistory for the creation of 21 new cardinals, to be held on Saturday in Rome.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 1, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in UK and Ireland, lead, London, London financial scandal, News, Secretariat of State, Vatican, Vatican finances | 0 |
The Vatican announced it has completed the sale of a property in London that is at center of a Vatican trial for 10 people, including Cardinal Angelo Becciu, accused of financial malfeasance.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 10, 2022 | Catholic News Service, London financial scandal, News, Vatican, Vatican criminal court, Vatican criminal justice | 0 |
Taking the stand at a Vatican trial, London-based Italian financier Raffaele Mincione said the Vatican Secretariat of State’s decision to back out of its investment in a London property is to blame for its financial losses.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 7, 2022 | Associated Press, London financial scandal, News, Vatican, Vatican criminal court, Vatican criminal justice | 0 |
One of the principal figures in the Vatican’s bungled London real estate venture testified Monday that the Holy See would have turned a profit on its valuable investment if it hadn’t pulled its money out of a fund prematurely.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 5, 2022 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Catholic social teaching, London financial scandal, News, News Analysis, Papal States, Vatican trial | 0 |
The conflation of executive and judicial authority directly contradicts the Catholic Church’s own social teaching.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 2, 2022 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Catholic News Service, Fossil fuels, Laudato Si, London financial scandal, News, Vatican, Vatican criminal court, Vatican criminal justice | 0 |
According to one of the 10 defendants at a Vatican trial focused on financial malfeasance, Vatican officials considered investing millions of dollars in an offshore oil platform in Angola around the time the pope was drafting Laudato Si’.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 1, 2022 | Associated Press, London financial scandal, News, Vatican, Vatican criminal court, Vatican criminal justice | 0 |
A former Vatican official testified Tuesday that he was under intense “psychological pressure” to finalize a deal over the Holy See’s troubled investment in a London property.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 31, 2022 | Associated Press, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, lead, London financial scandal, News, Vatican, Vatican criminal court, Vatican criminal justice | 0 |
The Vatican’s longtime investment banker testified Monday that he repeatedly voiced concerns about a fund that was investing in a troubled London property, but said the Holy See’s secretariat of state insisted on pursuing the deal.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 24, 2022 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, lead, London financial scandal, News, News Analysis, Papacy, Vatican | 0 |
If we want to talk about how challenging a particular gig is, a strong case can be made that the single toughest assignment in the Catholic Church belongs to the sostituto, or “substitute,” in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State.
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