US security services ‘targeted Francis in run up to and during conclave’ Claims NSA intercepted phone calls made to and from priests’ residence Other leading bishops and cardinals ‘also being monitored by US spies’ By Hannah Roberts PUBLISHED: 14:58 EST,… Read More ›
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Arrested Vatican monsignor felt he could act with impunity-judge
Source: Reuters – Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:19 PM Author: Reuters A Swiss guard walks in a hall leading to the Pope’s library at the Vatican May 6, 2013. REUTERS/Tony Gentile * Scarano had vast amounts of money… Read More ›
Top prelate, spy, broker arrested in Vatican bank probe
IOR woes continue, Vatican will collaborate ‘fully’ with judges 28 June, 13:15 (ANSAmed) – ROME – Italian police on Friday arrested a prelate in charge of Vatican accounts, a member of Italy’s domestic intelligence service and a… Read More ›
Suspicions, doubts linger after pope’s butler verdict
9:47am EDT By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The swift conviction of Pope Benedict’s former butler leaves lingering suspicions that he was a pawn in a much larger Vatican intrigue involving infighting in the papal court and alleged corruption… Read More ›
Catholic theologian: Unseat pope and push ‘authoritarian’ church to radical reform
By Kate Connolly, The Guardian Friday, October 5, 2012 14:26 EDT Topics: Joseph Ratzinger ♦ Ratzinger Hans Küng urges confrontation from the grassroots to unseat pope and force radical reform at Vatican One of the world’s most prominent Catholic theologians… Read More ›
Trial starts for Pope’s butler who ‘stole and leaked’ papal letters to expose ‘evil and corruption’ in Roman Catholic church
By Ruth Whitehead PUBLISHED:11:11 EST, 29 September 2012| UPDATED:11:11 EST, 29 September 2012 The Vatican today opened the trial of the Pope’s butler for allegedly stealing and leaking papal correspondence to a journalist, the worst security breach to occur in… Read More ›
World’s smallest state, Vatican holds one-of-a-kind trial of Pope’s former butler
By Agence France-Presse Friday, September 28, 2012 8:03 EDT Topics: Paolo Gabriele ♦ vatican The trial of Pope Benedict XVI’s former butler and a Vatican computer technician for leaking secret papers starting on Saturday has no precedent since the Holy… Read More ›