Financial Corruption
Leo Decapitates Vatican’s Anti-Money Laundering Group
The Pope has approved by means of a Chirograph, dated June 25 and published this June 30, the new Statute of the Supervisory and Financial Information Authority (ASIF), the Holy ...
Priest Charged With Theft of $160,000 From Kansas Parish
A priest turned himself in to police after being accused of stealing about $160,000 from a parish, according to officials with the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. Father Richard ...
Ex-Finance Director Of Middletown Church Stole Parish Funds, Spent It On Daughter’s Wedding
The former finance director of a Catholic church in Middletown admitted he stole from the church, according to New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport. Joseph Manzi, 78, who lives in ...
Tulsa Deacon Pleads Guilty To Stealing $1.4 Million From Parish
Deacon John Sommer, the former business manager and parish manager of Christ the King Parish, accepted a plea deal with federal prosecutors on May 13. Sommer acknowledged that from March ...
Luxury Cars, Gucci Handbags and European Vacations: Feds Say Priest Lived ‘Lavish Lifestyle’ With Funds From Greek Orthodox Church
When I broke the story in June 2025 that the Rev. Dr. Christos Christakis was fired as priest of Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Buffalo after he was accused of ...
Vatican Watchdog: Suspicious Financial Reports Rose In 2025
The Supervisory and Financial Information Authority’s latest annual report, published April 30, detailed 78 reports of suspicious activities in 2025, 73 of which came from the Institute for the Works ...
Former Vatican Bank President: “I Did Not Expect Such a Lack of Professionalism”
INTERVIEW - On April 28, Frenchman Jean-Baptiste de Franssu stepped down as president of the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), more commonly known as "the Vatican bank." Appointed ...
Bishop Shaleta Arrested on Charges of Embezzlement, Money Laundering
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release Thursday that the bishop was picked up at the San Diego airport as he attempted to leave the United ...
Setting the Record Straight on Ettore Gotti Tedeschi
Similar to Libero Milone, Tedeschi appears to have likely been another victim of the Deep Church. Ettore Gotti Tedeschi’s role in Vatican financial reform, and the circumstances of his removal ...
3 Catholic Charities Employees Indicted in Fraud Scheme
Three former Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee employees have been indicted on charges that they defrauded the nonprofit of at least $2 million. A 29-page indictment, filed Feb. 3 ...
An Open Letter to U.S. Bishops Calling for Transparency and Accountability
From misuse to abuse, the time of blind giving to a bishop's Annual Appeal is over. The Annual Appeal was launched in our diocese this weekend, as it has been ...
What Epstein Emails Said About The Vatican Bank
The world’s media continues to digest the most recent release of data files by the U.S. Department of Justice relating to the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted human trafficker ...
Leaked Recording of Vatican Official Discussing FBI Probe Suggests Money Laundering
The Vatican is facing mounting questions after the publication of a leaked audio recording in which Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, an official of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith ...
Confidential Audit Led to 2022 Order Subsequently Repealed by Leo
A 2021 audit of the Holy See’s sovereign asset manager said it was an “urgent” issue that APSA lacked basic risk management controls, had no long term planning function, and ...
Libero Milone Takes His Case to Vatican City’s Supreme Court
Libero Milone, the Vatican’s ex-auditor general, doesn’t give up easily. Having had his lawsuit against the Vatican for unlawful dismissal rejected in 2024, fined 113,000 euros in trial costs, and ...
Vatican Prosecutors Suffer Embarrassing Loss As Tribunal Says Their Appeal Is Inadmissible
The Vatican appeals tribunal put an end Thursday to prosecutors’ efforts to salvage their claims of massive fraud in the Holy See’s “Trial of the Century,” in which a once-powerful cardinal ...
Jerome Corsi: How an Obama/Biden Deal with Honduras to Flood the U.S. with Illegal Immigrants Financed ActBlue
It is gravely detrimental to the entire Catholic Church to have Bishops for whom the maintenance of power renders irrelevant the link between the presence of thousands of irregular minors ...
The Vatican Financial Mess Pope Francis Couldn’t Fix
The ailing pope was short of breath, sitting beneath a cherished painting of Mary, Untier of Knots, as he worked through a last-ditch plan to disentangle the finances of one ...
Viganò Sues Vatican Bank
PRESS RELEASE of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò I gave a mandate to Prof. Attorney AUGUSTO SINAGRA with Legal Firm in Rome in Viale Gorizia n. 13, to file a lawsuit ...
Francis Failed to Fix the Vatican’s Finances
Along with the spiritual leadership of the world’s 1.3bn Catholics, the late Pope Francis wrestled with a more temporal task: overseeing the complex and opaque finances of the world’s smallest ...
Pope Francis and the Vatican Deep State
When Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio became pope in March 2013, it seemed promising that he was from what he, as Pope Francis, would call “the peripheries.” His election was expressive of ...
