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A senior Vatican official is set to testify in the English High Court next month in a civil case brought by a London financier who alleges that his prison sentence in the Holy See was imposed following an unfair trial. In a rare departure from the Vatican's typical claims of diplomatic immunity, Arc

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A cardinal who was in charge of Vatican funds between 2011 and 2018 has been convicted of embezzlement after becoming the first cardinal to stand trial in the Holy See's criminal court. Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, once a former contender for the papacy, was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in

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