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Vatican says it’s a ‘credible’ partner in war against money laundering
The Vatican on Wednesday said it was a “credible partner” in the struggle against money laundering as it published its first-ever report on efforts to meet international rules on suspect financing. The Vatican “is already a credible partner,” said Rene Bruelhart, director of the Vatican’s Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA), who…
Vatican gives blessing to ‘adopt a cardinal’ website
The Vatican on Friday gave its blessing to a new German website called “Adopt a Cardinal” that is encouraging the faithful to pray for individual cardinals chosen at random by a computer programme. “The cardinals were informed about the website. A lot of people have signed up,” Vatican spokesman Federico…
Pope’s butler arrested in Vatican leaks scandal
Vatican police arrested Friday a man — reportedly the pope’s butler — on allegations of having leaked confidential documents and letters from the pontiff’s private study to newspapers. The man was caught in possession of secret documents, the Vatican said, but it would not confirm the suspect’s identity, age, or…
Rome prosecutors link Vatican cleric to 29-year mystery of missing girl
The Vatican is under pressure to help resolve one of the strangest of many enigmas lingering in Italy from the cold war years. For four years, prosecutors in Rome have been making a renewed attempt to get at the truth behind the disappearance in 1983 of Emanuela Orlandi, the 15-year-old…
U.S. clergy sex abuse case against Vatican dropped
CHICAGO — A civil lawsuit launched in the United States seeking to tie the Vatican and the Pope to an alleged decades-long cover-up of clergy sex abuse has been dropped, the plaintiff’s lawyer said. The suit was filed in 2010 on behalf of an unnamed victim of an alleged serial…
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