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October 20, 2019

Vatican documents detail suspicious investments at Secretariat of State

October 20, 2019

A confidential report from the Vatican’s anti-corruption authority shows that the Secretariat of State has used about $725 million, most of which came from the Pope’s charity fund, in off-books operations. Italian weekly L’Espresso published a report on October 20 revealing information from three confidential Vatican documents, one of which is a report from the

Morning Catholic must-reads: 21/10/19

October 20, 2019

Pope Francis urged Catholics to spread the Gospel with “new enthusiasm” at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Martyr Fr Alfredo Cremonesi was beatified on Saturday. A controversial carved image of a pregnant woman was present at a Way of the Cross in Rome on Saturday. Fr Dwight Longenecker compares Pachamama and the Pietà. Cardinal

Missing priest found dead in Kenya

October 20, 2019

A Catholic priest who disappeared from his family home was found dead in a shallow grave in southeastern Kenya a week after he was reported missing. Police investigators and pathologists exhumed the body of Fr Michael Maingi Kyengo, 43. They said his body had been stashed in a sack. Onlookers watched in shock as Fr