Columnist: Ed Condon
What New Reports About Cardinal Becciu Might Mean
On Monday, Cardinal Angelo Becciu’s attorney issued a statement that aimed to rebuff a new series of allegations against the disgraced cardinal. The allegations quickly appeared to amount to little, ...
Vatican Finances and Cardinal Parolin’s Crisis of Credibility
On Saturday, the ongoing saga of Vatican financial scandal – or reform, if you prefer – continued with the approval of several new changes to Vatican City law on transparency ...
Scranton Diocese Says ‘No Credible Evidence’ Against Msgr. Walter Rossi
The Diocese of Scranton released a statement Friday regarding Msgr. Walter Rossi, rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The statement said that after an ...
Could Curial Politics Stop a Vatican Finance Trial?
As details continue to emerge about a raft of financial scandals at the Vatican Secretariat of State, some observers have been left wondering at the apparent lack of urgency or ...
Vatican Official was Director in London Property Broker’s Company
Talk about a conflict of interest. As the Vatican’s Secretariat of State finalized its purchase of a London luxury apartment building, a lay secretariat official who oversaw investments was appointed ...
London to Malta via Rome: Following the Money in Vatican Financial Scandals
The Vatican raid conducted on the chief prosecutor of the Church’s Apostolic Signatura sheds light on a network of companies and businessmen at the center of interrelated Vatican financial scandals ...
Vatican Appointment of Pro-Chinese Government Bishop Delayed
The Holy See has delayed announcing its pick for the next bishop of Hong Kong, CNA has learned, amid concerns that local clergy and lay Catholics will see Rev. Peter ...
FBI Interviewed Papal Foundation Staff about McCarrick
Law enforcement officials have conducted interviews with several senior figures at the Papal Foundation, a U.S. based charity which supports the charitable works of the Holy Father. Officers from the ...
Vatican’s Investment Funds Were Vehicles for Italian Bank Fraud
Two investment funds used by Vatican dicasteries were also used by a major Italian bank to conceal illegal investments for which the bank was eventually closed. On Friday, Maltese media ...
Vatican Investments Linked to Global Money Laundering Investigations
A fund in which the Vatican’s Secretariat of State has invested tens of millions of euros has links to two Swiss banks investigated or implicated in bribery and money laundering ...
Vatican’s London Luxury Developer, With Ties to Alleged Financial Crime, Offered to Raze Catholic Property
Developers acting for the Vatican Secretariat of State offered to raze a London parish hall and rectory and replace it with low-cost housing, in order to try to push through ...
Hospital Loan and Papal Foundation Controversy Land Vatican Bank in Regulatory Spotlight
The head of the Vatican's central bank appeared to admit this week to a transaction that could be a violation of European regulatory commitments, namely a loan of 50 million ...
Brooklyn’s Bishop to Lead Vatican Investigation of Buffalo Diocese
The Vatican has announced that Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn, New York, will lead an apostolic visitation of the Diocese of Buffalo. The visitation, a canonical inspection and fact-finding mission, ...
German Synod Plan to be Vetted by Controversial Lay Group, not Vatican
The plan for a “binding synodal process” recently approved by the German bishops will be sent to a controversial lay group for amendment and approval, CNA has learned. On Sept ...
Diocese of Scranton Launches Investigation Into National Shrine Rector Rossi
The Diocese of Scranton has begun an investigation into allegations of misconduct on the part of the rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, ...
Archbishop Wilton Gregory Promised Truth and Transparency, But Provides No Answers About McCarrick’s Money
More than one year after the announcement of allegations of sexual abuse against former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the Archdiocese of Washington has continued to refuse questions about McCarrick’s use of a ...
Houston Sex Case Raises Serious Questions About Pope’s Reforms
A report was published Tuesday of an apparent affair between a married woman and a senior priest of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. While the case has provoked uncomfortable questions about ...
Despite Serious Allegations, Archbishop Francis Chullikatt Remains an Apostolic Nuncio
An archbishop who served as the Holy See’s permanent observer to the United Nations is accused of financial and professional misconduct, including the use of Vatican staff and influence to ...
Saving Andrew Cuomo’s Soul
Bishops may not wish to be ‘politicians or culture warriors,’ but they are required to speak with clarity on what is and is not acceptable for a Catholic to do, ...
Canon Lawyer Ed Condon: ‘Excommunicate Cuomo’
Governor Cuomo’s excommunication should be declared for the good of souls: first of all for his own, but also for the good of those who will otherwise follow him into ...
‘Unfathomable’ Wuerl Forgot Allegations
The man who made a 2004 accusation of misconduct against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick said Wednesday he is in disbelief after Cardinal Donald Wuerl told him he forgot about the allegation ...
