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Former Vatican official Angelo Becciu jailed for five-and-a-half years over corruption scandal

December 17, 2023 World Justice News 0

The pope’s former deputy secretary of state and nine others have been found guilty in the Vatican’s biggest financial corruption scandal. Cardinal Angelo Becciu was convicted of embezzlement on Saturday and sentenced to five-and-a-half years […]

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Vatican’s Cardinal Becciu on trial in $412m fraud case

July 27, 2021 World Justice News 0

A Roman Catholic cardinal who was once a close ally of Pope Francis is going on trial in the Vatican, accused of misusing Church funds in a ruinous London property venture. Cardinal Angelo Becciu, 73, […]

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Vatican arrest man over luxury property deal

June 7, 2020 World Justice News 0

An Italian businessman who helped the Vatican to buy luxury property in London in a controversial deal has been arrested by Vatican police. Gianluigi Torzi is accused of extortion, embezzlement, aggravated fraud and money laundering […]

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Pope scraps pontifical secrecy rule over sex abuse

December 17, 2019 World Justice News 0

Pope Francis has made changes to the way the Roman Catholic Church deals with cases of sexual abuses of minors, by abolishing the rule of “pontifical secrecy”. New papal documents lift the obligation of silence […]

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Pope admits clerical abuse of nuns including sexual slavery

February 6, 2019 World Justice News 0

Pope Francis has admitted that clerics have sexually abused nuns, and in one case they were kept as sex slaves. He said in that case his predecessor, Pope Benedict, was forced to shut down an […]

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German Catholic priests ‘abused thousands of children’

September 12, 2018 World Justice News 0

More than 3,600 children in Germany were assaulted by Roman Catholic priests between 1946 and 2014, a leaked report has revealed. The study was commissioned by the Church itself, and was due to be published […]

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Cardinal McCarrick, prominent US Catholic, resigns over abuse claims

July 28, 2018 World Justice News 0

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a prominent US cardinal accused of sexually assaulting a teenager nearly 50 years ago. Theodore McCarrick, 88, a former Archbishop of Washington, must also carry out “penance and […]

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Pope Francis ‘slander’ comment angers Chile abuse victims

January 19, 2018 World Justice News 0

Pope Francis has triggered anger in Chile after accusing victims of a paedophile priest of slander. Francis said there was “no proof” for their claims that abuse by Father Fernando Karadima had been covered up […]

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US teen pleads guilty to IS-inspired plot to kill pope

April 4, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

A New Jersey teen pleaded guilty Monday to a plot allegedly inspired by the Islamic State group to kill Pope Francis during his 2015 visit to the United States.  The US Justice Department said Santos […]

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Scandal Rocks Catholic Churches In Italy

March 10, 2017 WJN Administrator 0

Lurid accusations of priests involved in sex orgies, porn videos and prostitution have emerged from several parishes in Italy recently, sending shock waves all the way to the Vatican and challenging the high standards that […]

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