Gossip and internal politicking are so much a part of Vatican life
that an old Rome joke goes: “In the Church, a secret is something you
only tell one person at a time.” But this week the definition of secret-spilling got blown up.
Two Italian journalists — an economics reporter for a prominent newsweekly and a muckraking TV figure — published books that used extensive leaked Vatican data to show in detail the kind of financial irregularities that in the past have come out in dribbles and rumors. And the alleged findings are dramatic, from the top Vatican official whose swanky Rome penthouse was refurbished by a church charity to the Vatican pension fund’s $800 million hole, to a report that Vatican real estate is worth about seven times as much as is reported on balance sheets.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/11/06/why-juicy-vatican-secrets-are-getting-harder-to-keep-even-under-pope-francis/
Two Italian journalists — an economics reporter for a prominent newsweekly and a muckraking TV figure — published books that used extensive leaked Vatican data to show in detail the kind of financial irregularities that in the past have come out in dribbles and rumors. And the alleged findings are dramatic, from the top Vatican official whose swanky Rome penthouse was refurbished by a church charity to the Vatican pension fund’s $800 million hole, to a report that Vatican real estate is worth about seven times as much as is reported on balance sheets.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/11/06/why-juicy-vatican-secrets-are-getting-harder-to-keep-even-under-pope-francis/
