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Trial testimony: Vatican wanted to pay off London broker

by | Apr 6, 2022 | , , , , , , , , | 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.

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Former Vatican official says he obeyed orders in London property deal

by | Mar 31, 2022 | , , , , , , , | 0 |

A former Vatican official facing charges of extortion and abuse of office related to a controversial London property deal said he was acting under obedience in his role and made no decisions without approval from his direct superior.

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Vatican spy story takes center stage as fraud trial resumes

by | Feb 18, 2022 | , , , , , , , , | 0 |

The Vatican’s big fraud and extortion trial resumes Friday after exposing some unseemly realities of how the Holy See operates, with a new spy story taking center stage that is more befitting of a 007 thriller than the inner workings of a papacy.

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At Vatican trial, will the real Alberto Perlasca finally stand up?

by | Aug 8, 2021 | , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

ROME – Anyone who’s ever seen the classic mafia movie “Goodfellas” knows the central character, played brilliantly by Ray Liotta, lives the life to the full until it all comes crashing down and he’s busted. He then does what any self-respecting thug would – he flips, becomes the star witness

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Indicted Italian cardinal wants his day in court … more than one, actually

by | Jul 21, 2021 | , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Though it’s difficult to keep an accurate count, the lawsuit against La Verità appears to be one of around ten Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu has either filed, or threatened to file, against various press outlets and individuals.

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Historic Vatican indictments raise as many questions as they answer

by | Jul 4, 2021 | , , , , , , , , , , | 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.

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‘Pope of the Little Guy’ caught up in the heavy lifting of reform

by | Mar 28, 2021 | , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Pope Francis legendarily has a keen sense of justice and a hard-wired bias in favor of the underdog, but it’s also clear that Francis, like pretty much every reformer pope before him, is still struggling with the institutional translation of those core instincts.

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