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...The charges resulted from an investigation by Vatican police into the alleged misuse of church funds in an ill-fated London property investment....
...investigation into the alleged misuse of church money....
...Within the Church, Opus Dei members have been in charge of the Vatican’s press office and its bank....
...The Vatican Each Christmas, the Vatican receives a special presepe donated from a different region of Italy; towns have been applying for the honour since 2012....
...It was designed to mend a decades-long divide between state-sanctioned church officials appointed by the communist party and the “underground” church loyal to the Vatican and long attacked by Beijing....
...One of Asia’s most senior Roman Catholic clerics is meeting officials in Beijing, as a deal between the Vatican and China over the church’s role in the country appears to be fraying....
...The owner of the Mutabor club surprised everyone by donating relics of St Nicholas — which he claimed to have sourced from the Vatican — to a local church....
...December 25 to January 2 2025; further information here Vatican Christmas Tree & Lighting Ceremony The Vatican’s Christmas festivities run from early December to early January, marked by the annual tree-lighting...
...“But now the Vatican lives in the 24/7 news cycle. All these players have become media savvy.”...
...It targets the conservative forces — the Vatican, Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orbán, Giorgia Meloni — engaged in “a campaign to restore an earlier order of things”....
...The Vatican’s former chief auditor and his deputy, who were dismissed in 2017 after trying to investigate the Catholic church’s “off the books” Swiss bank accounts, have launched a €9.3mn legal action against...
...Church documents by a trusted Vatican butler....
...the Church’s future....
...I was raised in the Catholic church, and my earliest memories of fine art are from that environment....
...Pell’s role in overhauling the Vatican’s financial structures was cut short by his trial....
...Vatican City: The Catholic Church celebrates 10 years of Pope Francis’s papacy....
...Though Benedict pledged to maintain a low profile after his retirement, he wrote books and gave interviews from his residence in a former convent within the Vatican, and became a focal point for church conservatives...
...Belfast’s Falls Road had a faith demographic Vatican City might envy. Catholicism was omnipresent....
...This campaign appealed to Church conservatives critical of reforms introduced after the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council....
...They also say the timing was set by the Vatican, after Pope Francis approved a martyrdom decree for the Ulmas last December....
...The Vatican’s ambassador, Archbishop Waldemar Sommertag, was expelled in March....
...The case had garnered significant global attention but Pell said that his trial was not a “referendum on the Catholic church” and how it handled long-running allegations of child sexual abuse....
...The world around her had been changing, including the Catholic church: Vatican II, the great wave of reform announced in 1962, had led to deep ructions between conservatives and liberals....
...China-Vatican tensions: A deal between the Vatican and China over the church’s role in the communist state appears to be fraying....
...That means the sale of the building to Bain, a process the Financial Times first revealed last November, will crystallise losses of well over £100mn for the Catholic Church....
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