Vatican leaks Archives

Thoughts on the surprisingly sudden fall of the Vatican’s J. Edgar Hoover

Oct 15, 2019

Latest Vatican departure shows nobody can hold on forever.

Vatican security chief resigns following leak of internal document

Oct 14, 2019

Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Domenico Giani, head of the Vatican police, nearly two weeks after an internal security notice was leaked to the Italian press.

By Junno Arocho Esteves

Vatican heads into Moneyval evaluation amid new bank mystery

Dec 5, 2017

The Council of Europe’s Moneyval committee is expected to issue a progress report Wednesday on the Vatican’s compliance with international norms to fight money-laundering and terror financing, particularly at its bank.

By Nicole Winfield

Latest Vatican mystery raises more questions about pope’s financial reform

Dec 3, 2017

While Pope Francis was away in Asia, the Vatican removed the number two official at the Vatican bank without any explanation. The episode forms part of a broader perceived crisis in the pope’s financial reform.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Pope Francis faces a real dilemma in ‘Vatileaks 2.0’

Dec 23, 2015

ROME — In a Christmas audience with Vatican employees and their families on Monday, Pope Francis issued an unusually blunt mea culpa: “I want to apologize for the scandals that there were in the Vatican,” he said, referring to 2015. He didn’t say which scandals he meant, and people from

By John L. Allen Jr.

Why a criminal trial for leaks could boomerang on the Vatican

Nov 24, 2015

Although it may be overshadowed both by Pope Francis’ trip to Africa this week and, in the United States, the Thanksgiving holiday, a Vatican trial that got started on Tuesday runs the risk of boomeranging in its effort to claim the moral high ground amid a recent cycle of embarrassing

By John L. Allen Jr.