Ten years of Pope Francis: As the pontiff marks a decade in the office, conservatives confront post-Benedict era
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Australian cardinal faces civil action
AP The father of a deceased former choirboy filed a lawsuit against Cardinal George Pell and the Catholic Church in an Australian court on Thursday claiming the parent suffered psychological injury over an accusation that the once-senior Vatican official sexually abused the son. Neither the father nor the son can be named under Australian laws […]
Pope hopes London building last Vatican financial scandal
Vatican CityReuters Pope Francis said he hoped that the recent sale of a luxury London building at the centre of an ongoing corruption trial meant the Vatican can see the back of financial scandals. Vatican finances were one of the many church and international topics the 85-year-old pontiff discussed in an exclusive interview with Reuters […]
Cardinal Pell praises Pope Francis’ curial reform after financial scandals
Vatican CityRNS Speaking at a Catholic event in Rome on Thursday, the Vatican’s former finance czar, Cardinal George Pell, praised Pope Francis’ reforms to improve transparency in the institution while addressing questions raised by recent financial scandals in the Catholic Church. Francis’ reforms of the Vatican’s Curia, outlined in his long-awaited apostolic constitution, Praedicate Evangelium, […]
Former economy tsar Cardinal Pell warns the Vatican is facing major deficit
Vatican CityRNS Former Vatican economy tsar Cardinal George Pell warns in a new book that the Catholic institution is facing a growing deficit, but he hopes financial reform efforts have put a stop to money laundering in the small city-state. Pell’s newest book, Prison Journal, Volume 3: The High Court Frees an Innocent Man, was […]
Australian police find nothing criminal in Vatican fund transfers
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Australian police said on Tuesday that they had found nothing criminal in the transfer of $US7.3 million from the Vatican to Australia between 2014 and 2020. Financial crime watchdog AUSTRAC scrutinised the transactions after Italian media reported in September that large sums of money had been sent to Australia during the trial of […]
Victoria Police not investigating Vatican money transfers to Australia
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Police in the Australian state of Victoria said they were not conducting any further investigation into a transfer of monies from the Vatican to Australia that they were alerted to by the financial crimes watchdog. Victoria Police said in a statement that the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) had made them […]
Australian police get information on alleged Vatican funds transfer amid Pell case
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Australia’s financial crimes watchdog said it had handed information to police about the alleged transfer of Vatican funds to Australia amid the prosecution of former Vatican treasurer George Pell for child sex abuse. Italian media recently reported that Pell’s nemesis, Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, sent €700,000 to Australia to help Pell’s “enemies” while […]
Australian inquiry: Pell knew of abuse by paedophile priest
Canberra, AustraliaAP Australian Cardinal George Pell knew a priest had been moved decades ago because he had sexually abused children, and should have removed an unstable priest in another parish who was also a suspected paedophile, an Australian Government inquiry concluded. A report from the inquiry on child sexual abuse had been released in 2017, […]
Vatican welcomes Cardinal Pell acquittal; says he waited for the truth
Vatican CityReuters The Vatican on Tuesday welcomed Cardinal George Pell’s acquittal by Australia’s highest court on charges of sexual abuse, praising him for having “waited for the truth to be ascertained”. In its first official reaction, a statement said the Vatican had always had confidence in Australian judicial authorities and reaffirmed the Holy See’s “commitment […]