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Peña Parra and the rule of law: Has anything changed in the Vatican?

Will Archbishop Peña Parra face a formal complaint in the Vatican?

Ed. Condon
Mar 21, 2023
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Peña Parra and the rule of law: Has anything changed in the Vatican?
Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra meets with Pope Francis in 2017. The Pillar file photo.

One of the highest-ranking officials in the Holy See — the effective papal chief of staff no less — told a Vatican courtroom Friday that he had asked for extra-legal surveillance of the director general of the IOR, the Vatican’s canonically-established banking operation.

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