Cardinal Angelo Becciu

Cardinal Becciu speaks of ‘drawing up a balance sheet’ of one’s life before God in homily

By Courtney Mares, January 5, 2024 After being convicted on several counts of embezzlement of Vatican funds, Cardinal Angelo Becciu gave a New Year’s Eve homily recommending the congregation draw up “a balance sheet” of one’s personal life before God, according to an Italian media... read more

Cardinal Becciu retains luxury Vatican apartment after conviction

THE PILLAR, December 19, 2023 Cardinal Angelo Becciu retains the use of a palatial grace-and-favor apartment in Vatican City, despite being convicted of numerous financial crimes.  Becciu has been resident for years in an apartment on the top floor of the Palazzo del Santo Uffizio, the... read more

Cardinal Becciu guilty

The Pillar, December 16, 2023  The long-running Vatican finance trial ended Saturday with a guilty verdict for Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, along with convictions for several other former Vatican officials and businessmen who worked with the Vatican. Judge Giuseppe... read more

English courts order Vatican to disclose sensitive emails in ‘trial of the century’

By Charles Hymas, Telegraph, November 18, 2023 The Vatican has been ordered by the English courts to reveal highly sensitive emails and texts between senior clerics despite claiming such disclosure would be a “grave sin.” Lawyers for the Vatican sought to claim that the emails,... read more

Vatican prosecutor seeks 7 years in prison, $15 million in cardinal’s financial trial

By Daniel Payne, Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency, July 26, 2023 The top public prosecutor for the Vatican on Wednesday asked the judge in Cardinal Angelo Becciu’s financial malfeasance trial to serve the embattled prelate with seven years and three months in prison and to... read more

‘I regret to inform you’: Pope Francis rebuffs Cardinal Becciu in letters read during ongoing finance trial By Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency, March 10, 2023 Prior to the start of his trial on financial malfeasance charges, Cardinal Angelo Becciu tried to get Pope Francis... read more

Analysis: As the year ends, where do things stand with the Vatican ‘trial of the century’?

By Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency, December 19, 2022 The latest round of hearings at the Vatican’s historic finance trial has revealed several twists that profoundly changed proceedings — and raised several questions for the court in the new year. First of all, the... read more

Vatican officials seek to hamstring former auditor’s $9.6 million lawsuit

By Elise Ann Allen, Crux, November 18, 2022Former Vatican’s first auditor general, Libero Milone distributes documents during a press conference at the Foreign Press Club in Rome, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.) ROME – Just a week after the Vatican’s first... read more

Former Vatican auditor sues Holy See for millions in damages

CNA Staff, Catholic Hwerald (UK), November 11, 2022 The first auditor general of the Vatican and his deputy are suing the Secretariat of State for $9.25 million in damages. Libero Milone and Ferruccio Panicco are seeking compensation for loss of earnings, damage to their reputations, and... read more

Cardinal Becciu ‘reinstated’ by Pope Francis?

By Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency, August 22, 2022 Rome Newsroom, Aug 22, 2022 / 05:19 am Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints who resigned from all positions in the context of an alleged financial scandal, has said he... read more

Vatican airs dirty laundry in trial over London property

By Nicole Winfield, AP, May 22, 2022VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s sprawling financial trial may not have produced any convictions yet or any new smoking guns as prosecutors work through a first round of questioning of the 10 suspects accused of fleecing the Holy See of tens of millions of... read more

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