In the end, Cardinal Angelo Becciu sued the Italian magazine L’Espresso for a defamatory campaign against him. The complaint provides a series of details to claim there was a plot against the Cardinal. The word “plot” was mentioned, for the first time, by Vittorio Feltri, editor of the Italian newspaper Libero. Feltri used broad [...]

The publication of the McCarrick Report could not be more untimely. The 461-page report documenting evaluation mistakes, superficialities, and major flaws in selecting bishops came out the day after a documentary critical of Cardinal Dziwisz was broadcast in Poland. The documentary attacked Dziwisz for allegedly covering up abuse. On the morning of Nov. 10, [...]

We still do not know if the five Vatican officials suspended during the investigation on the purchase of a luxury real estate property in London will be prosecuted or not. Everything seems on hold one year after the spectacular searches and seizures that took place in the Secretariat of State and the [...]

There is a detail in the Becciu affair that went unnoticed. Yet it is rather important: the Vatican, via the Interpol, asked the Italian Police to arrest an Italian citizen. The Vatican is also asking the Italian State to extradite this Italian citizen to the Vatican. The extradition request can have a considerable [...]

Pope Francis’ alleged declarations backing homosexual civil unions, featured in a documentary film, have generated a lively discussion. Some spoke about a plot to manipulate Pope Francis’ words, while others dated the plot back to when these words were uttered. The film does not include an original interview with the Pope. It shows unaired [...]

There is a twofold meaning to the Nov. 28 consistory Pope Francis announced Sunday, with which he will set the basis for a conclave with a substantial majority of cardinals he himself has created, and by which he will give a definitive shape to the reform of mindset he has always pursued.

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Until now, Pope Francis appears to have escaped the criticism and attacks levied against the Church. Even when it comes to the recent Vatican financial scandals, Pope Francis’ name is never mentioned. It is strange since the Pope, though he never took any responsibility for what happened, always presented himself as a [...]

Cardinal Becciu’s resignation as prefect of the Congregation for the Cause of Saints and from the prerogatives of a cardinal opened a Pandora’s box. Since the resignation, the media has reported every day about the Holy See’s mismanagement in finances, published interviews of people who had worked as financial intermediaries for the Holy [...]

When the late Israeli president Shimon Peres visited Pope Francis six years ago to promote the idea of a Parliament of World Religions, the Pope took his time to think about it. There was a risk to “secularize” religions and treat them as a political tool. Instead, Pope Francis liked the idea of [...]

We do not officially know the reason for Cardinal Angelo Becciu’s decision to renounce to his title of Cardinal and resign from the Congregation for the Cause of Saints. One could initially guess that the resignation is related to the acquisition of a luxury real estate property in London by the Vatican Secretariat [...]