Vatican News

Becciu accused of sending Vatican funds to Australia during Pell trial

CNA Staff, Oct 2, 2020 / 02:30 pm (CNA).- Italian media have reported allegations that Cardinal Angelo Becciu transferred several hundred thousand euros from Vatican accounts to an account in Australia during the trial of Cardinal George Pell. 

The cardinal has not responded to the allegation, which CNA has not independently corroborated.

Be faithful to Christ, Pope Francis urges new Swiss Guard recruits

Vatican City, Oct 2, 2020 / 05:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis Friday met with the 38 new recruits of the Swiss Guard, who will be sworn-in Oct. 4, encouraging them to be faithful to Christ.

“May the oath you take the day after tomorrow also be a testimony of fidelity to your baptismal vocation, that is, to Christ, who calls you to be men and Christians, protagonists of your existence,” Pope Francis said.

Australian professor and French philosopher win Ratzinger Prize

Vatican City, Oct 2, 2020 / 04:00 am (CNA).- An Australian professor and a French philosopher were named the winners of this year’s Ratzinger Prize Oct. 1.

Former Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi, president of the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Foundation, announced Thursday that the 2020 award would be shared by Tracey Rowland and Jean-Luc Marion.

Mincione used former Vatican fund to invest in mafia-linked bond managed by Torzi company

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 1, 2020 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- An investment fund created for the Holy See Secretariat of State to invest Church assets was used to purchase millions in a bond of debt products issued by companies, some with alleged mafia links. Both the investment fund and the bond, which packaged hospital receivables into a debt security, were managed by companies belonging to two businessmen at the center of the ongoing Vatican financial scandal.

Pompeo and top Vatican diplomats have ‘respectful’ exchange of views on China

Vatican City, Oct 1, 2020 / 08:10 am (CNA).- The U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the Holy See’s top diplomats had a “respectful” exchange of views on China, the Vatican said Thursday. 

Responding to questions from journalists, Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See press conference, said that Pompeo discussed China with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, and Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States, Oct. 1.

Economy prefect says Vatican must be ‘a house of glass’ as 2019 figures released

Vatican City, Oct 1, 2020 / 07:00 am (CNA).- The Vatican’s Secretariat for the Economy released the 2019 balance sheet for the Roman Curia Thursday.

Fr. Juan A. Guerrero, S.J., the department’s prefect, told Vatican News Oct. 1 “the economy of the Holy See should be a house of glass.”

“We want the budget to explain how the Holy See uses its resources to carry out its mission,” he said.

Pope Francis recognizes miracle attributed to Italian laywoman who died in 1997

Vatican City, Sep 30, 2020 / 10:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis advanced the sainthood cause Tuesday of an Italian woman who died in 1997 after touching the lives of thousands of people despite suffering from progressive paralysis.  

The pope authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints Sept. 29 to promulgate a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to Gaetana “Nuccia” Tolomeo, paving the way for her beatification.

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