News Vatican City State: Vatican appeals court declares partial mistrial in Cardinal Becciu trial
The Court of Appeal declared that Vatican prosecutors made procedural errors that undermined the defendants' right to a fair defense.
News Vatican City State: Vatican’s 2024 surplus represents ‘significant progress’ in economic situation
Pilgrims and tourists gather in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican to pray the midday Angelus prayer with Pope Leo XIV Aug. 31, 2025. Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican ...
News Vatican City State: The Vatican Is First 100% Solar Country Via Agrivoltaics: Who Is Next?
The Catholic Church has a long history of supporting environmental stewardship. This tradition got a recent boost. The late Pope Francis’ goal of powering the Vatican by 100% solar energy is happening ...
News Vatican City State: Vatican strikes solar farm deal to become the world’s first carbon-neutral state
Italy agreed Thursday to a Vatican plan to turn a field north of Rome into a vast solar farm that the Holy See hopes will generate enough electricity to meet its needs and turn Vatican City into the world’s first carbon-neutral state.
News Vatican City State: Vatican prosecutor seeks seven-year sentence for cardinal
The prosecutor at a Vatican corruption trial linked to a botched London real estate deal asked a court on Wednesday to convict Cardinal Angelo Becciu and sentence the former Holy See power broker to seven years and three months in jail.
News Vatican City State: Vatican prosecutors request a total of 73 years in prison for defendants in corruption trial
In all, the Vatican’s head prosecutor, Alessandro Diddi, asked that the trial’s 10 defendants serve a cumulative 73 years and one month in prison. None of the defendants has been found guilty by the ...
News Vatican City State: Vatican says new leads worth pursuing in 1983 disappearance of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi
Emanuela Orlandi vanished on June 22, 1983, after leaving her family's Vatican City apartment to go to a music lesson in Rome. Her father was a lay employee of the Holy See, the episcopal ...
News Vatican City State: Vatican to hand over evidence in 1983 disappearance of employee’s daughter
The Vatican said Thursday it will hand over evidence in the disappearance of a 15-year-old daughter of one of its employees 40 years ago to the Rome city prosecutor. Emanuela Orlandi, who was the ...
News Vatican City State: Vatican sends leads into missing ‘Vatican girl’ to Rome prosecutors
Emanuela Orlandi was the teenage daughter of Ercole Orlandi, an envoy of the Prefecture of the Pontifical House and a citizen of Vatican City State. Her disappearance on June 22, 1983, after ...
News Vatican City State: Vatican investigator vows to stay ‘close to the pain’ of ‘Vatican Girl’ family
Because she was the daughter of a minor official of the Papal Household and her family lived in an apartment within the Vatican City State, her case over the years has become a magnet for ...
News Vatican City State: Vatican reports income boost in charitable fund, even as donations dip following financial scandals
That year, it only brought in 46.9 million euros in income, according to the financial statement ... in particular the Vatican secretariat of state’s 350 million-euro investment in a London ...
News Vatican City State: Vatican prosecutor may be biggest beneficiary of Pope’s hospitalization
Alessandro Diddi, Promoter of Justice for the Vatican City State. (Credit ... moving “trial of the century,” featuring charges of financial crime against 10 defendants, including, for the ...
News Vatican City State: ‘To Respond to the Needs of Our Times’: New Fundamental Law for Vatican City State Kicks In
Regarding financial reforms, D’Arienzo said these are “even ... The new law guarantees the presence of Vatican City State globally, as the new rules will be in line with the “high standards of ...
News Vatican City State: After two years, Vatican financial trial closes preliminary stage
(RNS) — Vatican prosecutors will lay out their indictment beginning in mid-July, when they will detail charges against the 10 defendants and their involvement in the investment that squandered millions in Vatican funds.
News Vatican City State: Cardinal blasts vendettas, 'plots against me' in Vatican financial trial
VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican cardinal on trial in the Holy See’s big financial crimes case complained Friday that he can't properly defend himself from “the nightmare of these accusations” because prosecutors have withheld key evidence from the defense. Cardinal Angelo Becciu spoke out in court after Judge Giuseppe Pignatone rejected his lawyers’ latest appeal for access to the material. In a decree read aloud Friday, Pignatone sided with...
News Vatican City State: Car breaches Vatican gate at high speed, man arrested
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -A man driving a car breached Vatican security on Thursday evening, driving at high speed through a gate of the city-state and reaching a central courtyard of the Apostolic Palace before being arrested, the Vatican said. A statement said a Vatican policeman fired a gun and hit the car. The man, described as about 40 years old and in an unstable sate of mind, did not get
News Vatican City State: Pope's new 'fundamental law' for Vatican City allows laypeople to serve on governing body
Pope Francis updated the "Fundamental Law of Vatican City State," opening the possibility that laypeople can be members of its governing commission and emphasizing that the independence of the city-state is essential for the mission of the Holy See.
News Vatican City State: Pope issues new ‘fundamental law’ for Vatican City State
Pope Francis updated the "Fundamental Law of Vatican City State," opening the possibility that laypeople can be members of its governing commission and emphasizing that the independence of the city-state is essential for the mission of the Holy See.
