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by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2022 | AIF, Archbishop Peña Parra, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Financial Information Authority, News, Rene Brulhart, U.S. & World News, Vatican Secretary of State, Vatican watchdog agency | 0 |
The former director of the Vatican’s financial watchdog agency told the Vatican court that his office’s minimal involvement in a costly property deal was at the behest of Pope Francis and several top Vatican officials.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2022 | AIF, Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, lead, London financial scandal, News, News Analysis, Rene Brulhart, Secretariat of State | 0 |
One Italian newspaper headlined its coverage of the Vatican trial this way: “The accusatory castle of Vatican prosecutors is crumbling piece by piece.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 6, 2022 | Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, Associated Press, London financial scandal, News, Rene Brulhart, Secretariat of State, Vatican, Vatican criminal court, Vatican criminal justice | 0 |
The former head of the Vatican’s financial watchdog testified that the agency launched an intelligence investigation into a suspicious London real estate deal after it learned about it but had no power to stop the Vatican from concluding it.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 3, 2022 | AIF, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, lead, News, News Analysis, Rene Brulhart, Tomasso Di Ruzza, Vatican trial | 0 |
The most consequential day of the week’s trial activity may actually come on Tuesday, not Thursday, because that’s the day devoted to René Brülhart, former head of the Vatican’s Financial Information Authority, and Tomasso Di Ruzza, his top aide.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 5, 2021 | AIF, lead, London deal, News, Pope Francis, Rene Brulhart, Vatican, Vatican finances | 0 |
With the Vatican’s megatrial on financial crimes reopening today, two surprising names on the list of those in the dock are René Brülhart and Tomasso Di Ruzza, who had both previously played a key role in Pope Francis’s financial cleanup efforts.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 25, 2021 | lead, News, Rene Brulhart, Vatican, Vatican finances, Vatican reform, Vatican trial | 0 |
Just weeks after being indicted by the Vatican on charges of abuse of office over a shady London real estate deal, Swiss lawyer René Brülhart has resigned from his post on the board of a Swiss bank.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 28, 2021 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Financial reform, lead, London financial scandal, News, News Analysis, Promoter of Justice, Rene Brulhart, Vatican tribunal | 0 |
Even the three-ring circus that was the Vatileaks II trial in 2016 pales in comparison in terms of the complexity this time around.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 4, 2021 | Arcbishop Angelo Becciu, Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Financial reform, lead, News, News Analysis, Promoter of Justice, Rene Brulhart, Secretariat of State, Vatican trial | 0 |
How the responses are fleshed out in the days and months to come will determine whether Saturday is indeed remembered as a truly historic turning point, or merely the latest chapter in everything in the Vatican changing so that everything can stay the same.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 3, 2020 | Financial Information Authority, lead, News, News Analysis, Peter's Pence, Rene Brulhart, Secretariat of State, Tomasso Di Ruzza, Vatican finances, Vatican reform | 0 |
At some point, Pope Francis will have to face the fact that his much-ballyhooed Vatican reform appears to be adrift.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 18, 2020 | APSA, Bishop Nunzio Galantino, Emiliano Fittipaldi, Financial Information Authority, Financial reform, lead, Moneyval, News, News Analysis, Rene Brulhart | 0 |
A looming independent review of Vatican finances may provide the threat of blacklisting it takes to cajole the Vatican into serious reform.
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