ROME — The powerful head of the Vatican's saint-making office, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, resigned suddenly Thursday from the post and renounced his rights as a cardinal amid a financial scandal that has ...

Newly-minted Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu will resign from his post as substitute of the Secretariat of State tomorrow, in anticipation of his appointment as prefect of the Congregation for the ...

Cardinal Angelo Becciu talks to journalists during a news conference in Rome, Sept. 25, 2020. During the original trial over the Holy See's bungled investment in a London property that opened in 2021, ...

The appeal hearing for Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the former deputy Vatican secretary of state who was convicted in December 2023 of embezzlement, aggravated fraud, and abuse of office, began on Monday.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who was convicted of fraud and embezzlement and sentenced to 5 ½ years in prison by a Vatican court, appealed his case on Monday and Tuesday (Sept. 22-23).

In this June 28, 2018 file photo, Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu leaves after kneeling before Pope Francis to pledge allegiance and become a cardinal at St. Peter's basilica in Vatican City.