Papal Foundation
Was Leo Elected To Bring American Money To Rome?
Pope Francis’ pontificate was a hostile one for conservative Catholic Americans who found themselves at odds with some of his teachings and with the man himself, compounded by the Vatican’s ...
Leo Wants Wealthy American Catholics To Keep Donating, In Spite Of The Vatican’s Troubling History With The Papal Foundation
Pope Leo XIV on Saturday encouraged some of the wealthiest U.S. Catholics to keep on giving to support his charitable works, in an audience that confirmed how the election of ...
McCarrick’s Betrayal of Cardinal Zen, The Underground Church, and Traditional Catholic Principles Through Vatican-China Deal
1. Overview of McCarrick’s Role and Financial Misconduct Theodore Edgar McCarrick (July 7, 1930 – April 3, 2025), a disgraced Catholic cardinal, inflicted profound harm on the Church through his ...
Viganò Interview: The Church, the Papacy, the Conclave
My interview with Francesco Borgonovo 1. Your Excellency, the first question is perhaps the most difficult. Do you still consider yourself a member of the Catholic Church? I consider myself ...
Theodore McCarrick and the Church’s Abuse Problem
Rain fell in New York City four days before Christmas of 2018. Francis M. had planned to be in the city that day for business, but he had dutifully put ...
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 ...
The Vatican and IDI Financial Scandal: A CNA Explainer
For more than a year, CNA has been following a Vatican financial scandal involving a bankrupt Italian hospital, a potentially illicit loan from the Vatican’s central bank, and a controversial ...
Cardinal Becciu Again Denies Involvement in IDI Hospital Purchase
In a letter to a veteran Italian journalist, Cardinal Angelo Becciu wrote on Monday that he was not involved in the purchase of a bankrupt Italian hospital, and that reports ...
Did Cardinal Parolin Personally Violate International Financial Agreements?
Parolin's statement is likely a lie to cover for Francis, as Parolin is known for staying away from financial affairs. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Francis' Secretary of State, personally asked the ...
McCarrick Said Papal Foundation was ‘Irresponsible’ to Question Controversial Vatican Grant
Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick intervened to pressure members of the U.S. Papal Foundation to support a controversial grant request, intended to repay an illicit loan from APSA, the Vatican’s central ...
Vatican Cardinals Linked to Missing Millions and Financial Scandal
An Italian dermatology hospital and two senior cardinals are at the center of a burgeoning financial scandal involving a Vatican bank, the U.S.-based Papal Foundation, and millions of euros from ...
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 ...
Vatican Scandals: Follow The Money…If You Can
On January 4, 2013, a month before Pope Benedict resigned, the Italian Central Bank turned the lights off on the entire Vatican. The Vatican no longer had the ability to make any electronic financial ...
McCarrick Stood To Personally Benefit By Securing $25 Million Papal Foundation Grant
Scrutiny continues for the U.S.-based Papal Foundation, amid questions of whether some of its grant activity was motivated by a desire to secure leniency for disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick ...
Vatican Scandals: Follow The Money
On January 4, 2013, a month before Pope Benedict resigned, the Italian Central Bank turned the lights off on the entire Vatican. The Vatican no longer had the ability to make any electronic financial ...
How Cardinal Wuerl Misled the Papal Foundation
In 2017, Cardinal Donald Wuerl provided false and misleading information to the board of the Papal Foundation to secure a $25 million grant for the Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata (IDI), a ...
What a Web Theodore McCarrick Weaved
And his cronies, even at this late hour, still practice to deceive. Ever since Theodore McCarrick’s exposure as a molester earlier this year, his cronies, patrons, and protectors have downplayed ...
After Decades of Left v. Right, Is It Now Bishops v. Everybody Else?
Moments of great crisis generally affect institutions in multiple ways, some of which are immediately evident and others that take longer to discern. Amid the clerical abuse scandals currently rocking ...
The Papal Foundation & McCarrick’s Conflict of Interest
On July 28, 2018 the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had accepted Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s resignation from the College of Cardinals. This had the immediate effect of ending his nearly ...
How Obscure Italian Hospital Became the Eye of a Global Storm
In February 2013, in his last official act as pope, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI appointed a commissioner for a small, seemingly insignificant hospital in Rome, the Immaculate Dermatological Institute (IDI) ...
Pope Meets with Pro-Abortion Bono, But Won’t Meet with Argentine Sex Abuse Victims
Pro-abortion Irish rock star Bono paid a surprise visit to Pope Francis yesterday. After their half-hour meeting at the Casa Santa Marta, the hotel in which Pope Francis lives, multimillionaire ...
