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Chief prosecutor defends Vatican's legal system after recent criticism of pope's absolute power

The Vatican’s chief prosecutor has strongly defended the integrity and fairness of the city state’s justice system

The Independent UK

Vatican excommunicates former US ambassador Vigano, declares him guilty of schism

The Vatican has excommunicated its former ambassador to the U.S., Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, after finding him guilty of schism

The Independent UK

Vatican chief of staff testifies in UK finance trial, points finger at deputy who escaped unscathed

Pope Francis’ chief of staff has become one of the highest-ranking Holy See officials to testify in a foreign court

The Independent UK

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Defendant in Vatican trial takes case to UN, accuses pope of violating his rights with surveillance

One of the defendants in the Vatican’s big financial trial has formally complained to the United Nations about the trial

The Independent UK

Vatican police arrest employee who allegedly tried to sell 17th century manuscript

Vatican police have detained a former employee after he allegedly tried to sell a 17th century manuscript back to the Holy See

The Independent UK

Vatican Protests French Court Ruling On Nun's Dismissal

The Holy See protests French court ruling on nun's dismissal; Vatican disputes decision. French legal system holds church officials accountable in cases of...

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Catholic bishop subject of Vatican investigation no longer in control of Broome charities

Christopher Saunders, who has denied accusations he sexually assaulted young Aboriginal men, was responsible for nine charities

The Guardian - AU

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Vatican, the deep divide: Pope Francis under increasing pressure from conservatives

Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, is facing increasingly strong opposition inside the Vatican. The conservative clan of the Roman Curia – the powerful governing body of the Holy See – accuses him of a laxist vision of Catholic doctrine, particularly regarding the status of homosexual couples and…

France 24

Vatican prosecutor appeals verdict that largely dismantled his fraud case but convicted cardinal

The Vatican’s chief prosecutor has appealed a court verdict that largely dismantled his theory of a grand conspiracy to defraud the Holy See of millions of euros

The Independent UK

Vatican Cardinal Found Guilty In High-Profile Corruption Case

Cardinal Becciu sentenced to nearly six years in prison for embezzlement and abuse of office.

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Vatican tribunal convicts senior cardinal of embezzlement, sentences him to prison

A Vatican tribunal on Saturday convicted a cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to 5 ½ years in prison in one of several verdicts handed down in a complicated financial trial that aired the city state’s dirty laundry and tested its justice system.

France 24

A cardinal is convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to 5 1/2 years in Vatican trial

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the first cardinal ever prosecuted by the Vatican criminal court, was convicted in a complicated financial trial that aired the Vatican's dirty laundry.

WEKU

Cardinal and nine others to learn their fate in trial that aired Vatican state’s dirty laundry

A once-powerful cardinal and nine other people are to learn their fates when a Vatican tribunal hands down verdicts in a complicated financial trial that has aired the tiny city state's dirty laundry

The Independent UK

The Vatican's 'trial of the century,' a Pandora's box of unintended revelations, explained

Verdicts are expected for a cardinal and nine defendants in the most complicated financial trial in the Vatican’s modern history

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Closing arguments in Vatican trial seek to expose problems in the city state's legal system

Lawyers for a once-powerful cardinal have accused Vatican prosecutors of being “prisoners to their completely shattered theory" in closing arguments of a trial that has raised fundamental questions about the rule of law in the city state

The Independent UK

Pope orders Vatican to reopen case of priest ousted from Jesuits after claims of adult abuse

Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican to reopen the case of a well-known priest-artist accused of sexually, psychologically and spiritually abusing adult women

The Independent UK

The pope's absolute power, and the problems it can cause, are on display in 2 Vatican trials

Two Vatican trials are coming to a head this week

The Independent UK

Vatican defends wartime Pope Pius XII as conference honors Israeli victims of Hamas incursion

The Vatican secretary of state has strongly defended World War II-era Pope Pius XII as a friend of the Jews

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Vatican's sex abuse report on WA bishop to go to police

A Vatican report that found a longstanding bishop of Broome sexually assaulted Aboriginal boys and young men is to be forwarded to West Australian police.

AAP

Vatican report says Broome bishop a sexual predator

A longtime Catholic bishop of Broome groomed and sexually assaulted Aboriginal boys and young men, a Vatican investigation has found.

The Independent UK

Vatican considers child sexual abuse allegations against a former Australian bishop

A Catholic church leader says the Vatican is considering the findings of a church investigation into “very serious and deeply distressing” child sexual abuse allegations against a former Australian bishop

The Guardian - AU

Vatican considering report into ‘very serious’ allegations against former Broome bishop Christopher Saunders, church says

Archbishop of Perth says the former bishop has denied the ‘deeply distressing’ allegations

The Independent UK

Vatican opens up a palazzo built on ancient Roman ruins and housing its highly secretive tribunals

The Vatican has opened the doors to one of Renaissance Rome’s most spectacular palazzos in a show of transparency

The Independent UK

Ukraine's Catholic bishops tell pope that his praise for Russia's imperial past 'pained' Ukrainians

Ukraine’s Greek Catholic bishops have brought their complaints about the Vatican's diplomatic neutrality in Russia's war on their country to the Holy See itself

WEKU

Francis opens a homeless clinic on the 1st papal visit to Mongolia

Several of the foreign-staffed Catholic religious orders in Mongolia run shelters, orphanages and nursing homes to care for a population of 3.3 million where one in three people lives in poverty.

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