Financial Corruption

The Vatican’s “trial of the century”, which ended in December 2023 with guilty verdicts against Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu and eight other defendants for financial crimes, is back in the ...

There’s an old Irish saying that “A shroud has no pockets.” That’s bad news for Moneybucks McCarrick who left this mortal coil at age 94 years on April 3, 2025 ...

I have completed a rigorous financial review of Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., driven by a quest to unravel the blend of his ecclesiastical power and monetary ...

Libero Milone, who worked closely with the late Cardinal George Pell in uncovering huge fraud in the Vatican, was told to drop ‘indecent’ evidence of misconduct by high-ranking officials. In ...

Southside St. Adalbert’s Church former Pastor Mauricio B. Fernandez-Boscan, 42, originally from Venezuela is scheduled for a plea-sentencing hearing on April 11 for embezzling more than $33K from the St ...

Anthony Stine at Return to Tradition explains how the American Catholic Church has already lost the trust of its own members and the general public. The USAID/Catholic Charities mess is ...

Sassari preliminary hearings judge (GUP) Sergio De Luca on Monday indicted nine people, Antonino Becciu, the brother of Cardinal Angelo Becciu, and the Bishop of Ozieri, Corrado Melis, on embezzling ...

Catholic Confidential has reviewed a forensic accounting report commissioned by the parishioners of Sacred Heart of Mary Parish in Dundalk, Maryland, revealing financial exploitation by the Archbishop. The parish, with ...

Pope Francis has called for renewed commitment to curial cost-cutting in a letter to the College of Cardinals, and signaled that Vatican departments may be called upon to share their ...

Topline: Between 2013 and 2022, 15 nonprofits each received over $1 billion from the federal government for foreign, nonmilitary projects, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service ...

The Vatican’s first auditor-­general, Libero Milone, has described the death of cardinal George Pell as “shrouded in mystery” and revealed he made a heartfelt vow to “get to the truth” ...

"I identified many strange transactions carried out by cardinals and archbishops... (Cardinals) instead of using money they received for the benefit of the dicastery - ended up in their own ...

A Pennsylvania priest is facing criminal charges after police said he stole thousands of dollars of church funds and used them for App Store transactions - like virtual slot machines, ...

A Catholic priest was arrested Wednesday for allegedly stealing almost $100,000 in church donations to supplement his personal life, which included traveling and sending money to men he met on ...