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    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • Tuesday, 22 June, 2021
      LGBT+
      Vatican lobbies against Italy’s anti-homophobia law

      Catholic church fears the draft bill could erode ‘freedom of thought’

    • Tuesday, 1 June, 2021
      Residential
      Fantasy Home: a palazzo fit for prankishness inspired by The Young Pope

      Our writer yearns for Vatican-style splendour to witness up close some Machiavellian mischief 

    • Friday, 21 May, 2021
      Workplace diversity & equality
      Vatican faces employee protest over pay

      Dissatisfied clerics voice anger over salary cuts and poor morale in letter to Pope Francis

    • Wednesday, 12 May, 2021
      Vatican broker at heart of extortion probe arrested in London

      Gianluigi Torzi, detained at the request of Italian authorities, has denied wrongdoing

    • Sunday, 18 April, 2021
      Pandemic prompts belt-tightening at the Vatican

      Holy See cuts back on salaries and travel after visitor numbers and donations dive

    • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
      English court finds fault with Vatican request in property case

      Judge rules Holy See omitted crucial details in application to freeze assets of businessman

    • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
      Vatican reforms finances following London property scandal

      Pope Francis strips Holy See’s central administration office of assets

    • Wednesday, 21 October, 2020
      Catholic Church
      Pope challenges church orthodoxy by voicing support for gay unions

      Liberalising move is likely to delight Catholic reformers but anger religious conservatives

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