Pope Francis visits the Vatican Bank, appoints new Director General
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Tuesday visited the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), commonly known as the Vatican Bank. During his visit, he met with the Board of Superintendence for about...
View ArticleVatican scandal over leaked documents broadens to include Silvio Berlusconi’s...
(Telegraph) A Vatican scandal over leaked documents that has uncovered a murky web of sex, espionage and computer hacking has taken a new twist, with the alleged involvement of the family of Silvio...
View ArticlePope Francis cracks down on sainthood slush funds
(CBS News) Pope Francis is imposing tighter regulations on millions of dollars deposited in the Vatican bank to fund campaigns for sainthood after two blockbuster books alleged the accounts had become...
View ArticleVatican Bank: “Impossible to launder money” now
(CBS) The head of the Vatican’s scandal-marred bank declared Thursday it’s now “impossible to launder money” there after a years-long cleanup that saw norms imposed to fight money laundering and tax...
View ArticleTwo Vatican Bank board members resign
(AP) Two board members of the scandal-marred Vatican bank have resigned over disagreements about the management and mission of the institution. Under Pope Francis, the Institute for the Works of...
View ArticleThe Vatican’s bank is nearly out of the penalty box
(Slate) On Tuesday, the Vatican and the Bank of Italy signed a cooperation agreement that aims to put an end to years of Italian mistrust of Vatican finances. The agreement looks to enhance “the...
View ArticleThe Vatican and the Bank of Italy signed a key agreement after years of mistrust
(Reuters) The Vatican and the Bank of Italy on Tuesday signed a key cooperation agreement aimed at regularizing their relations and ending years of Italian mistrust over Holy See finances. The accord,...
View ArticleJohn Allen Jr.: Pope rolls the dice on reform blending old guard with new wave
(Crux) Reform, as experience teaches, is often a messy process. It implies building something new in place of long-established patterns of doing business, which often involves stops and starts,...
View ArticlePope Francis presses ahead with tackling the Vatican’s murky finances
(The Economist) One area where Francis has managed to make progress is in cleaning up the Vatican’s largely secret financial machinery. Most of the accounts at the Institute for the Works of Religion...
View ArticlePope Francis taps Notre Dame Investment Guru for Vatican Bank
(Crux) In December 2016 the Vatican announced that the lay board of the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), also known as the Vatican Bank, had added three new members bringing the total count to...
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