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Vatican finances

Can Pope Leo resist the Vatican culture of ‘alternative facts’?

The temptation for every new pope dealing with financial reform is to start afresh and not insist on a reckoning with past events.

Ed. Condon
Aug 19, 2025
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Pope Leo XIV meets with members of the College of Cardinals after his election. Credit: Vatican Media.

Pope Leo XIV is at Castel Gandolfo this week, the new pope’s second stint at the papal summer residence, while work is completing on renovations to the papal apartments where he is set to take up residence with a small Augustinian community.

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