The Vatican has never been a democracy, but the incongruity of a government that is a moral authority on the global stage and yet an absolute monarchy is becoming increasingly evident.

If the allegations are proven to be true, it would be a blow to Francis’s attempts to clean up the scandal-hit Vatican.

(Credit: Vatican ... scandals involving other members had emerged, and allegations of sexual, physical, and psychological abuse against Figari had already begun to surface in Peru. A full ...

The former director of the papal choir, Salesian priest Massimo Palombella, was sentenced to three years and two months ... Read also: Vatican dissolves Texas monastery amid scandal and allegations ...

The church’s sexual abuse scandals marred the papacy of the ... Pope Francis writes that the reform of the Vatican bureaucracy, particularly the effort to impose international accounting ...

Pope Francis has said he inherited a “large white box” full of documents concerning the “most difficult and painful” scandals within ... that the reform of the Vatican bureaucracy ...

Pope Francis has said he inherited a “large white box” full of documents concerning the ... s tenure was also tarnished by the “Vatileaks” scandal, which exposed allegations of corruption, conflict ...