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Vatican Finances

The AIF in the Vatican. Credit: Vatican News

Analysis: 2020, the Year to Make or Break Vatican Finances?

Jul 10, 2020

The Holy See is facing a perfect storm of a massive income shortfall, months of financial scandal, and a looming international banking inspection.

Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA.

Pope Francis Names Lay Finance Expert as Secretary of Vatican ‘central bank’

Jun 15, 2020

Pope Francis Monday appointed Fabio Gasperini, an Italian financial adviser working at Ernst and Young, to the second-ranking position at the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA).

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

Vatican Financial Reform Begins in Earnest Again: Analysis

Jun 2, 2020

On Monday, Pope Francis published sweeping new laws governing Vatican financial dealings. But the new laws are not really that new: They resurrect measures called for during the first days of the Francis pontificate. And now they’re back.

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Swiss Accounts Frozen in Vatican Property Deal Probe

May 30, 2020

Tens of millions of euros have been frozen in Swiss banks as part of the investigation into a Vatican property investment, according to a Swiss media report.

Skyline of the Octagonal Court in Pio-Clementino Museum, Vatican City. Credit: silverfox999/Shutterstock

Pope Francis Reforms Vatican City Courts With New Law

Mar 16, 2020

The new law provides enhanced safeguards for the independence of judges and prosecutors in Vatican City.

St. Peter's Basilica. Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA.

Suspension Revoked For Vatican’s Financial Watchdog Authority

Jan 23, 2020

The new head of the Vatican Financial Intelligence Authority (AIF) announced Thursday that the Vatican’s internal financial watchdog’s suspension from an international group has been revoked, and the AIF can resume collaboration with foreign financial intelligence units.

Valletta, Malta, where Gamma Capital and the Centurion Global Fund share an office. Credit: javarman/shutterstock

Vatican Investments Linked to Global Money Laundering Investigations

Dec 7, 2019

A fund in which the Vatican’s Secretariat of State has invested tens of millions of euros has links to two Swiss banks investigated or implicated in bribery and money laundering scandals involving more than one billion dollars. The fund is under investigation by Vatican authorities.

St. Peter's Basilica. Credit: vvo via Shutterstock.

Pope names financial supervisor president of watchdog authority

Nov 27, 2019

Pope Francis Wednesday appointed an auditor and Italian banking consultant as president of the Financial Information Authority (AIF), the Vatican’s internal financial watchdog.

Rene Bruelhart. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.

President of Vatican's Financial Watchdog Authority Ends Term

Nov 18, 2019

The Vatican announced Monday that René Brüelhart, president of the Vatican’s Financial Information Authority (AIF) has ended a five-year term and Pope Francis has chosen his successor.

Theodore McCarrick. Credit: US Institute of Peace CC BY NC 2.0

McCarrick: Foundation ‘irresponsible’ to Question Controversial Vatican Grant

Nov 7, 2019

McCarrick made the intervention in December 2017, after objections were raised to the Vatican’s request of $25 million from the Papal Foundation, for a bankrupt Italian hospital, the Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata (IDI). 

His Eminence Giovanni Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, June 27, 2019. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Vatican Cardinals Linked to Missing Millions and Financial Scandal

Oct 29, 2019

Cardinal Angelo Becciu and Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi have been key players in a complicated series of financial transactions to finance the Vatican Secretariat of State’s 2015 acquisition of the hospital.