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29 June 2017 : Pope’s chief financial adviser Cardinal George Pell vows to fight historical sex offence charges
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/cardinal-george-pell-latest-charged-sex-offences-vatican-catholic-church-a7813651.html
“For years, Pell has faced allegations that he mishandled cases of clergy abuse when he was archbishop of Melbourne and, later, Sydney. But more recently, Pell himself became the focus of a clergy sex abuse investigation, with Victoria detectives flying to the Vatican last year to interview the cardinal. It is unclear what allegations the charges announced Thursday relate to, but two men, now in their 40s, have said that Pell touched them inappropriately at a swimming pool in the late 1970s, when Pell was a senior priest in Melbourne.
“The charges are a new and serious blow to Pope Francis, who has already suffered several credibility setbacks in his promised “zero tolerance” policy about sex abuse. The charges will also further complicate Francis’ financial reform efforts at the Vatican, which were already strained by Pell’s repeated clashes with the Italian-dominated bureaucracy. Just last week, one of Pell’s top allies, the Vatican’s auditor general, resigned without explanation two years into a five-year term, immediately raising questions about whether the reform effort was doomed. ”
“Last year, Pell acknowledged during his testimony to the commission that the Catholic Church had made “enormous mistakes” in allowing thousands of children to be raped and molested by priests over centuries.”

14 July 2017 : https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-question-of-accountability-cardinal-pell-the-vatican-and-child-abuse/5599250

25 September 2017 : https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/7808/former-auditor-general-quit-after-vatican-threatened-to-arrest-him-for-spying-
“Libero Milone, 69, was appointed two years ago with far reaching authority including powers to audit the books of any department in the Vatican. He came to the job with an impressive track record having worked for Fiat and ran the Italian branch of Deloitte, the global accountancy firm.
In the summer he resigned suddenly without explanation but has now broken his silence to say he was forced out after his investigations uncovered irregularities, an allegation which the Vatican strongly contests.
Speaking to reporters over the weekend, Milone explained that on the morning of 19th June he met with Archbishop Giovanni Becciu, the Holy See’s “sostituto” and one of the Vatican’s most senior officials, who told him he was being dismissed on the basis of a seven-month investigation by Vatican police. Domenico Giani, the Vatican’s police chief, told Reuters news agency there had been “overwhelming evidence” against Milone although did not go into further details.
But the accountant countered to say the evidence presented to him on the 19th was “fake, fabricated” and that he was effectively being pushed out. Milone has not provided any evidence of the irregularities he found in the Vatican finances.
In a strongly worded statement, the Holy See said the former auditor-general had “illegally employed an outside company to carry out investigative activities on the private lives of members of the Holy See” which was not just a crime but had also “irredeemably damaged” the working relationship between the Vatican and its employee, who was paid a salary of €250,000-a-year.
On 27 September 2015, Milone said he suspected that his office computer had been tampered with so he contacted an external company that had done work for him before to check for surveillance devices as there was none in the Vatican to carry out this work. The company discovered that his computer had been the target of unauthorised access, and that his secretary’s computer had been infected with spyware that copied files.

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15 October 2017 : https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vatican-city-court-finds-former-hospital-president-guilty-of-corruption-28205
“Vatican City announced Saturday the conclusion of the corruption trial of the former president and treasurer of the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesù hospital in Rome.
However, subject to the granting of general attenuating circumstances, Profiti was granted a five-year conditional suspension of the sentence.
“The Vatican announced July 13 it was charging Profiti and Spina with the illicit use of hospital funds in the amount of 422,005 euros ($499,000) for the refurbishment of the apartment where Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone lives.”
(so no prison time because he was doing what Tarcisio Bertone told him to do….)
“The Bambino Gesù was founded in Rome in 1869 as the first pediatric hospital in Italy. In 1924 it was donated to the Holy See and became the “Pope’s Hospital.” While it receives funding from the Italian government, it does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Italian government’s health authorities.”
(Now.. that scares the hell out of me… Access to a pediatric hospital that cant be controlled by Italian Watchdogs…)

01/12/2017 – https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2017/12/01/senior-bank-official-sacked-and-escorted-out-of-the-vatican/
“Giulio Mattietti had held the position for two years before he was suddenly sacked this week. Crux reports that Vatican spokeswoman Paloma García Ovejero told local news agency ANSA, “Giulio Mattietti, deputy director general of the Institute of Religious Works, has ceased his service Monday November 27,” but decline to give any reason for his removal.”

08 January, 2018 – The Pope’s financial advisor, Peter Sutherland, dies aged 71

The Pope’s financial advisor, Peter Sutherland, dies aged 71

“Educated at Gonzaga College and at UCD, Peter Sutherland first came to widespread public prominence in the 1980s, when he twice served as Attorney General to Fine Gael-Labour coalition governments headed by Taoiseach, Garret Fitzgerald. He went on from there to become a European Commissioner for Competition serving for five years from 1985, which left him well placed to become Director General of GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which is now known as the World Trade Organisation (WTO). An American trade minister described Sutherland as ‘the father of globalisation’ and that without him there would be no WTO today.”

03 March 2018 : Ex-Vatican Bank President Indicted for Embezzlement, Money Laundering
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ex-vatican-bank-president-indicted-for-embezzlement-money-laundering-1520096565

25 August 2018 : Ex-Nuncio Accuses Pope Francis of Failing to Act on McCarrick’s Abuse
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/ex-nuncio-accuses-pope-francis-of-failing-to-act-on-mccarricks-abuse

29 August 2018 : Cardinal Burke: It is ‘licit’ to call for the resignation of Pope Francis
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2018/08/29/cardinal-burke-it-licit-call-resignation-pope-francis

“Cardinal Burke was among the first of a small number of bishops to come out publicly in support of Archbishop Viganò’s denunciation of the pope. It came as no surprise; he is widely considered one of the leaders of the traditionalist groups that oppose Francis, and the archbishop and Cardinal Burke both contest aspects of the pope’s exhortation on the family”