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  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Credit Suisse Group AG
    Fund manager files lawsuit against Credit Suisse over Vatican property deal

    Raffaele Mincione faces criminal proceedings for his role in purchase of London building

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    What the Vatican and crypto bros have in common

    Plenty, if the Milken Institute Global Conference in LA this week was anything to go by

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    FT Magazine
    The Franciscan monk helping the Vatican take on — and tame — AI

    Father Paolo Benanti has become one of the Pope’s chief advisers on the potential harms of new tech

  • Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    On trial in the Vatican

    Gas prices jump as Germany suspends certification of Kremlin-backed Nord Stream 2 pipeline

  • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
    News in-depthWorld23 min
    Can the Vatican reform its finances?

    Legal cases focus on controversial investments made by Vatican officials

  • Sunday, 7 November, 2021
    Vatican to lose £100m of charitable funds in London property sale

    Holy See close to finalising disposal of building at centre of international criminal probe

  • Tuesday, 27 July, 2021
    Vatican cardinal goes on trial in landmark financial corruption case

    High-ranking cleric accused of embezzlement has legal immunity lifted by Pope

  • Saturday, 17 July, 2021
    UK property
    Neighbours fume about ‘hellish noise’ at Vatican-owned London flat

    Purchase of luxury Chelsea apartments in 2014 was overseen by a cardinal who now faces corruption charges

  • Sunday, 4 July, 2021
    Catholic Church
    Vatican puts cardinal on trial for financial crimes

    Indictment of Becciu, who once selected saints, marks acceleration of Pope’s reform drive

  • Tuesday, 22 June, 2021
    LGBT+
    Vatican lobbies against Italy’s anti-homophobia law

    Catholic church fears the draft bill could erode ‘freedom of thought’

  • Tuesday, 1 June, 2021
    Residential
    Fantasy Home: a palazzo fit for prankishness inspired by The Young Pope

    Our writer yearns for Vatican-style splendour to witness up close some Machiavellian mischief 

  • Friday, 21 May, 2021
    Workplace diversity & equality
    Vatican faces employee protest over pay

    Dissatisfied clerics voice anger over salary cuts and poor morale in letter to Pope Francis

  • Wednesday, 12 May, 2021
    Vatican broker at heart of extortion probe arrested in London

    Gianluigi Torzi, detained at the request of Italian authorities, has denied wrongdoing

  • Sunday, 18 April, 2021
    Pandemic prompts belt-tightening at the Vatican

    Holy See cuts back on salaries and travel after visitor numbers and donations dive

  • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
    English court finds fault with Vatican request in property case

    Judge rules Holy See omitted crucial details in application to freeze assets of businessman

  • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
    Vatican reforms finances following London property scandal

    Pope Francis strips Holy See’s central administration office of assets

  • Wednesday, 21 October, 2020
    Catholic Church
    Pope challenges church orthodoxy by voicing support for gay unions

    Liberalising move is likely to delight Catholic reformers but anger religious conservatives

  • Wednesday, 14 October, 2020
    Italian police arrest woman in Vatican financial scandal

    Cecilia Marogna worked for Cardinal Becciu, who was forced by the pope to resign last month

  • Sunday, 11 October, 2020
    Vatican sells charitable assets to repay €242m Credit Suisse loan

    Holy See said to be ‘trying to reduce its credit exposure’

  • Friday, 9 October, 2020
    Tony Barber
    Power struggles entangle the Vatican

    Battlegrounds are alleged financial crimes, sexual abuse scandals and Pope Francis’s reform efforts

  • Thursday, 8 October, 2020
    Vatican used charity funds to bet on Hertz credit derivatives

    ‘Gambling’ bets placed under watch of Cardinal Becciu, who was forced to resign last month

  • Thursday, 8 October, 2020
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Lilly Covid drug, Vatican derivatives, UK mining corruption probe

    Drugmaker seeks emergency approval for antibody treatment

  • Wednesday, 30 September, 2020
    US foreign policy
    Pompeo pressures Vatican on China’s record on religious freedom

    Secretary of state calls on Vatican to ‘be bold’ in protecting Catholics amid growing tensions between US and China

  • Wednesday, 30 September, 2020
    Due Diligence
    The Vatican and London real estate: a match made in heaven? Premium content

    Documents show second-in-charge at the Secretariat of State conducted a few investments in luxury apartments

  • Tuesday, 29 September, 2020
    News in-depth
    Vatican-gate: more London luxury property deals revealed

    Cardinal Becciu, forced to resign by the Pope last week, oversaw Knightsbridge purchases

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