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Vatican finances

Peña Parra: Reporting corruption risked 'reputational damage'

News: Vatican finances

The Pillar
Apr 04, 2022
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New Vatican court filings show that the pope’s chief advisor decided not to report suspected criminal activity connected to the Vatican’s London property deal, because a criminal report would be bad publicity.

Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, sostituto at the Secretariat of State, wrote to Pope Francis on May 2, 2019, saying that he had decided to “enter int…

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