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Vatican

  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    Europe Express
    Picking the next pope Premium content

    Vatican-watchers are debating who might succeed Francis at the head of a Catholic Church rife with internal tensions

    Pope Francis attends a special audience with altar servers in Saint Peter’s square at the Vatican
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Opus Dei
    Catholic group Opus Dei accused of recruiting children

    Dozens of former members say organisation targets young teenagers to commit to strict religious life

    Montage of two women and a rosary
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Senior Vatican cleric accused of lying to court in London lawsuit

    Archbishop appeared as part of proceedings brought by financier found guilty of embezzlement

    Venezuelan archbishop Edgar Robinson Peña Parra in Vatican city, Rome
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Catholic Church
    London court to judge good faith of convicted Vatican financier

    Businessman was found guilty by Holy See of embezzlement over a Chelsea property deal

    60 Sloane Avenue in Chelsea, London,
  • Monday, 18 December, 2023
    Cardinal convicted of fraud in Vatican court case protests his innocence

    Giovanni Angelo Becciu says he relied on expert advice when approving a London property investment at centre of scandal

    Giovanni Becciu
  • Sunday, 17 December, 2023
    Cardinal convicted of embezzlement in landmark Vatican court case

    Giovanni Angelo Becciu was responsible for managing the Holy See’s funds

    Italian cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, right, with other cardinals
  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Artist Catherine Opie on the Vatican — an outsider’s view of an arcane world

    The photographer’s new show is a close study of the architecture and ideology of the city-state

    Close-up photographs of details from paintings showing wounds and injuries arranged in a grid
  • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
    Chinese politics & policy
    Catholic envoy visits Beijing as China-Vatican tensions simmer

    Deal over appointment of bishops appears to be fraying

    Stephen Chow
  • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
    OutlookMadhumita Murgia
    The Vatican and the moral conundrums of AI

    Last month, a meeting brought together imams, rabbis and the Pope to discuss the new technology

    A view of Rome from St Peter’s Basilica
  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    OutlookAmy Kazmin
    Doctrinal battles and intrigue exposed in Gorgeous George’s Vatican memoir

    The book is part of the increasingly public campaign by clerical conservatives to undermine Pope Francis

  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
    George Pell
    Australian Cardinal George Pell dies at 81

    Cleric was most senior Catholic official jailed for child sexual abuse before having conviction overturned

    Cardinal George Pell leads a mass in 2008
  • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
    News in-depthPope Benedict XVI
    Pope Francis presides over funeral for ‘taboo-breaking’ predecessor

    Late Pope Benedict’s resignation set new precedent for future heads of the Catholic Church

  • Saturday, 31 December, 2022
    Catholic Church
    Former Pope Benedict dies aged 95

    First pontiff in 600 years to resign from his post became a focal point for conservatives in his retirement

    Pope Benedict XVI celebrates an open-air mass in a field near Regensburg 12 September 2006.
  • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
    Tony Barber
    Pope Francis sets off a contest over the future of the Catholic Church

    An unprecedented global consultation of the faithful is galvanising rival liberals and conservatives

    Illustration of a black cross drawn on a grey background. The horizontal line of the cross has an arrow on each end.
  • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
    Vatican’s former audit chief launches €9.3mn legal case over dismissal

    Libero Milone and his deputy lost their jobs after seeking to probe one of church’s ‘off books’ Swiss bank accounts

    Libero Milone, right, greets Pope Francis at the Vatican in April 2016
  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    UK property
    Vatican suffers £100mn-plus loss on Knightsbridge office sale

    London estate agents puzzled by decline in value for prime property on Sloane Avenue

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Credit Suisse Group AG
    Fund manager files lawsuit against Credit Suisse over Vatican property deal

    Raffaele Mincione faces criminal proceedings for his role in purchase of London building

    60 Sloane Avenue in Knightsbridge, London,
  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    What the Vatican and crypto bros have in common

    Plenty, if the Milken Institute Global Conference in LA this week was anything to go by

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    FT Magazine
    The Franciscan monk helping the Vatican take on — and tame — AI

    Father Paolo Benanti has become one of the Pope’s chief advisers on the potential harms of new tech

    Father Paolo Benanti
  • Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    On trial in the Vatican

    Gas prices jump as Germany suspends certification of Kremlin-backed Nord Stream 2 pipeline

  • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
    News in-depthWorld23 min
    Can the Vatican reform its finances?

    Legal cases focus on controversial investments made by Vatican officials

  • Sunday, 7 November, 2021
    Vatican to lose £100m of charitable funds in London property sale

    Holy See close to finalising disposal of building at centre of international criminal probe

    Brownstone building at 60 Sloane Avenue
  • Tuesday, 27 July, 2021
    Vatican cardinal goes on trial in landmark financial corruption case

    High-ranking cleric accused of embezzlement has legal immunity lifted by Pope

    Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu
  • Saturday, 17 July, 2021
    UK property
    Neighbours fume about ‘hellish noise’ at Vatican-owned London flat

    Purchase of luxury Chelsea apartments in 2014 was overseen by a cardinal who now faces corruption charges

    Sign for Hans Place in Chelsea, London, England
  • Sunday, 4 July, 2021
    Catholic Church
    Vatican puts cardinal on trial for financial crimes

    Indictment of Becciu, who once selected saints, marks acceleration of Pope’s reform drive

    Giovanni Angelo Becciu
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