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by bcadmin | Jun 22, 2021 | Emanuela Orlandi, lead, News, Pope Francis, scandals, Vatican | 0 |
On the anniversary of the disappearance of Italian teen Emanuela Orlandi, daughter of a former Vatican employee, her brother has criticized Pope Francis’s handling of the case, saying the pope is not doing enough.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 12, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, financial scandal, Italy, London, News, scandals, Vatican | 0 |
A Rome judge ordered the arrest Monday of an Italian businessman living in London who is a prime suspect in the Vatican’s two-year investigation into the Holy See’s 350-million-euro ($416 million) investment in a London real estate venture.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 29, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, News, Pope Francis, scandals, Vatican, Vatican criminal court, Vatican criminal justice | 0 |
Signaling further reforms of the Vatican City State penal code, particularly when it comes to financial crimes, Pope Francis said the laws must reflect “the equality of all members of the church” by doing away with “privileges that go back in time and are no longer in keeping with the responsibility of each for building up of the church.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 17, 2021 | Books, Cardinals, Isis, lead, News, News Analysis, Papal conclave, scandals, Vatican, Vatican finances | 0 |
Pietro Caliceti’s novel L’Opzione di Dio (“The Option of God”) describes a Vatican every bit as corrupt and vengeful as the legal outfit memorably presented by John Grisham in his 1991 thriller The Firm.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 25, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, News, scandals, Vatican, Vatileaks | 0 |
Paolo Gabriele, the Vatican butler who was convicted of stealing and leaking Pope Benedict XVI’s private papers in 2012, has died. He was 54.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 30, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Corruption, News, papal interview, Pope Francis, scandals, Vatican, Vatican reform | 0 |
Corruption is an “ancient evil” that continues to plague the Catholic Church in different ways, Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 18, 2020 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Cecilia Marogna, Francesca Chaouqui, Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, scandals, Secretariat of State, Vatican finances, Women in the Vatican | 0 |
Following the eternal logic of cherchez la femme, the recent scandal surrounding Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu now has served up its own female lead: Cecilia Marogna, a 39-year-old lay Italian professional now under arrest in Milan awaiting possible extradition to the Vatican to face a criminal trial there.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 14, 2020 | Associated Press, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Catholic Church, financial scandal, News, scandals, second, Vatican, Vatican criminal justice | 0 |
The Vatican’s swirling corruption investigation has taken a mysterious new twist with the arrest on an international warrant of a Sardinian woman said to be close to one of the Holy See’s most powerful cardinals before his downfall.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, financial scandal, News, scandals, Vatican | 0 |
After he was asked to retire by Pope Francis for allegations of embezzlement, Cardinal Angelo Becciu denounced several media reports accusing him of using Vatican funds for other questionable purposes.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 13, 2020 | Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, Archdiocese of Washington, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Bishop Joseph C. Bambera, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, scandals, Scranton | 0 |
An investigation into allegations of “sexual impropriety” by Msgr. Walter R. Rossi, rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, found no “credible evidence” of such misconduct, said Bishop Joseph C. Bambera of Scranton, Pennsylvania, in a June 12 statement.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 12, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, Church in India, India, Indian Bishops, News, scandals | 0 |
A retired Catholic high court judge has sent a legal notice to church authorities seeking the removal of a bishop, accusing him of crimes such as murder, corruption and moral turpitude, among others.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 27, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Italy, News, scandals, Vatican | 0 |
The Vatican has disciplined another charismatic religious leader, exiling the founder of an Italian monastic community over governance problems.
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