Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu

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Giovanni Angelo Becciu, former prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, pictured June 27, 2019.

Vatican Cardinal Angelo Becciu resigns from office and 'rights' of cardinals

Sep 24, 2020

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who until today was prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints, has resigned from... Read more

Dome of St. Peter's basilica, Vatican City.

Analysis: Is the Torzi arrest a beginning or an end?

Jun 9, 2020

By Ed Condon

The arrest of Italian businessman Gianluigi Torzi for financial crimes was a major event. How “major” depends on if prosecutors see his arrest as the... Read more

The Institute for Religious Works, or 'Vatican bank'. (File Photo/CNA).

London to Malta via Rome: Following the money in Vatican financial scandals

Feb 19, 2020

By Ed Condon

The Vatican raid conducted on the chief prosecutor of the Church’s Apostolic Signatura sheds light on a network of companies... Read more

The Vatican and IDI financial scandal: A CNA explainer

Dec 17, 2019

Here’s the IDI scandal in a nutshell:  Read more

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, center, in 2015.

Becciu again denies involvement in IDI hospital purchase

Dec 2, 2019

In a letter to a veteran Italian journalist, Cardinal Angelo Becciu wrote Monday that he was not involved in the... Read more

Pope Francis during an in flight press conference on the papal plane, Nov. 26, 2019.

On papal flight, Pope Francis talks Vatican financial scandal

Nov 26, 2019

By Hannah Brockhaus

Although investigators are looking into a controversial Vatican investment in a luxury London property development, whether the deal was corrupt... Read more

Cardinal George Pell.

Vatican officials: Swiss bank suspected of money laundering led to Pell conflict

Nov 21, 2019

By Ed Condon

The Holy See’s relationship with a disreputable Swiss bank triggered an internal dispute between the Secretariat of State and Vatican... Read more

Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

Cardinal Parolin says he arranged controversial hospital loan, Papal Foundation grant

Nov 20, 2019

By Ed Condon, JD Flynn

The Vatican Secretary of State told CNA this week that he is responsible for arranging a controversial loan for the... Read more

Theodore McCarrick.

McCarrick: Foundation ‘irresponsible’ to question controversial Vatican grant

Nov 6, 2019

By Ed Condon

McCarrick made the intervention in December 2017, after objections were raised to the Vatican’s request of $25 million from the... Read more

Cardinal George Pell of Sydney speaks during a press conference at the Vatican Press Office on July 9, 2014.

Cardinal Pell objected to controversial Vatican hospital loan

Nov 5, 2019

By Ed Condon

A 50 million euro loan request to secure the purchase of a bankrupt hospital was vetoed by Cardinal George Pell... Read more

Cardinal (then Archbishop) Giovanni Angelo Becciu aboard the papal flight to Colombo, 2015.

Vatican’s $200 million London property deal financed with borrowed money, sources say

Nov 4, 2019

By Ed Condon

Senior Vatican sources have told CNA that a controversial Vatican investment in a London property development was financed with borrowed... Read more

Then-Archbishop Angelo Becciu, as substitute at the Secretariat of State, with Vatican Gendarme Captain Giani Domenico in 2012.

Becciu says $200 million London property deal was ‘accepted practice’

Oct 30, 2019

By Ed Condon

Cardinal Angelo Becciu has denied any impropriety in a real estate investment made with Vatican funds and insisted that he... Read more

His Eminence Giovanni Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, June 27, 2019.

Vatican cardinals linked to missing millions and financial scandal

Oct 29, 2019

By Ed Condon

Cardinal Angelo Becciu and Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi have been key players in a complicated series of financial transactions to finance... Read more

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, center, in 2015.

Cardinal Becciu at center of Vatican financial investigation

Oct 14, 2019

By Ed Condon, JD Flynn

The recent raid of Vatican offices is connected to an investigation into charges that Vatican money financed the development of... Read more

Pope Francis at the General Audience in St. Peter's Square, May 2, 2018.

Pope advances sainthood causes of 17 women

Jan 15, 2019

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis approved Tuesday the next step in the canonization causes of 17 women from four countries, including the martyrdom... Read more

St. Peter's Basilica.

Waiting for a new deputy at the Vatican Secretariat of State

Aug 9, 2018

By Andrea Gagliarducci

Pope Francis’ trip to Ireland for the World Meeting of Families will be likely his first international trip not to... Read more

Then-Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu speaks with journalists aboard the papal flight to Colombo, Jan. 12, 2015. Becciu was made a cardinal June 28, 2018.

Now a cardinal, Giovanni Angelo Becciu heads to congregation for saints' causes

Jun 28, 2018

By Elise Harris

Newly-minted Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu will resign from his post as substitute of the Secretariat of State tomorrow, in anticipation... Read more

Archbishop Giovanni Becciu, substitute of the Secretariat of State, aboard the papal flight to Colombo, Jan. 12, 2015.

Pope Francis extends mandate of special delegate to Knights of Malta

May 4, 2018

By Hannah Brockhaus

Fifteen months after appointing Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu as his personal envoy to the Knights of Malta, Pope Francis extended... Read more

Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu, the Vatican's deputy Secretary of State, whose April 12 letter suspended the PwC audit of Vatican finances.

Suspended audit reveals power struggle at the Vatican

Apr 25, 2016

By Andrea Gagliarducci

The recent suspension of an audit of Vatican finances by a major accounting firm shed light on a lively debate... Read more