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L'audit des finances du Vatican suspendu
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Ce contrat de trois millions de dollars avait été signé par le cardinal australien George Pell, le puissant secrétaire à l'Economie du pape, pour trois ans de contrôles intégraux des budgets des différents services du Vatican, qu'une vaste réforme …

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/04/16
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Cardinal George Pell has said he is “a bit surprised” by the Vatican Secretariat of State's decision to suspend an external audit (John Allen). Cardinal Vincent Nichols has welcomed a unanimous House of Commons vote recognising ISIS's crimes as genocide.

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New Vatican diplomat presents credentials to UN-Geneva
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(Vatican Radio) Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič, a Vatican diplomat who previously served as Apostolic Nuncio to the Russian Federation, on Thursday presented his credentials as the new Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the Geneva-based U.N. agencies …

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Norway's Church to seek Vatican permission to stop officiating at civil weddings
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A Norwegian bishop has said the country's clergy will no longer officiate at civil weddings, after the predominant Lutheran Church's governing synod voted to conduct gay marriages in Norway. Bishop Bernt Eidsvig of Oslo told Catholic News Service that …

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Holy See "firmly rejects" illegal drugs; opposes legalization
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(Vatican Radio) The Holy See's Permanent Observer to the United Nations in New York, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, on Thursday “firmly” rejected the use of illegal drugs and the legalization of the use of narcotics. The Vatican diplomat, quoting Pope …

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Vatican calls halt to PwC audit
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There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing on the part of PwC, which was awarded a three-year contact to audit the Vatican's complex finances at the end of last year. The contract was reportedly worth $3m (£2.1m) and was signed by Cardinal George Pell, …

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Bolivian president Evo Morales sees a lot to like in Bernie Sanders' candidacy
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The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, has said that an unexpected meeting at the Vatican with US presidential contender Bernie Sanders had demonstrated a “thirst for a different kind of democracy” in the US. While Sanders' meeting with Pope Francis was …

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Bolivian president sees kindred spirit in US candidate Sanders
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While Sanders' meeting with Pope Francis was his highest profile encounter with a foreign leader during his Vatican visit last week, the self-described Democratic socialist candidate also crossed paths with Morales at a conference there on social justice.

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Vatican liturgist: “We are administrators, and not the masters, of the sacraments”
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The book, Con i sacramenti non si scherza (The Sacraments Are Not a Joke), is by theologian and Vatican liturgical consultor Msgr. Nicola Bux, professor of sacramental theology and author of several books on the liturgy, including 2010's Come andare a …

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Queen Elizabeth and the Popes
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VATICAN CITY: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II turned ninety on Thursday. The last time she came to the Vatican it was to meet Pope Francis together with her husband Prince Philip on the 3rd of April 2014. It was an informal meeting which marked her …

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