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‘Something inexorably broke’ in the Holy Land after Hamas attack, says Latin Patriarch
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Pope puts faith in Vatican Bank to prevent repeat of London property scandal
August 25, 2022
Pope Francis has moved decisively to clean up corruption in Vatican finances and to avoid a repeat of the high-profile botched investment in a London property that resulted in a loss of 140 million euros. The Holy Father issued a document called a “rescriptum”, which explicitly ordered all investments made by Vatican departments to proceed
Pope Francis Orders Pay Cuts, Salary Freezes
March 24, 2021
Curial cardinals will take a 10% pay cut, while other department heads will take an 8% reduction, and lower-level officials who are clerics and/or religious will see 3% less in monthly pay. Laity, clerics, and religious will all face pay freezes – even those not subject to pay cuts – for two years.
“Vatican Justice” Doesn’t Hold Water
February 21, 2021
Most of the changes are technical and procedural, and – as my friend, John Allen Jr, rightly noted – are designed to dispel or at least mitigate the impression, general among Vatican insiders, that “Vatican Justice” is heavily weighted against defendants, who are typically laymen and laywomen or clergy of the lower ranks.
Eggs and baskets, animals and farms
December 28, 2020
Praedicate Evangelium "puts evangelization at the center of the Church, and of everything the Curia does,” but what will Pope Francis's reformed Curia actually be able to do?
Pope Francis issues law reorganizing Vatican finances
December 28, 2020
Under the new law, APSA will gain ownership of funds, bank accounts, and investments, including real estate, previously administered by the Secretariat of State from Jan. 1, 2021. 
Cardinal Becciu seeks damages over ‘groundless’ Italian media reports
November 19, 2020
The Vatican announced Becciu’s resignation as prefect and from the “related rights of the Cardinalate” on the evening of Sept. 24.
Pope Francis takes purse from Secretariat of State
November 05, 2020
The sweeping nature and speed of the moves is by Roman standards breathtaking -- and raise questions about the shape of the broader curial reform.
Pope Francis appoints Card. Farrell, others to new special oversight commission
October 05, 2020
The Prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life, Cardinal Kevin Farrell is to be president of the Commission on Reserved Matters
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