The Pope’s overhaul of the Vatican’s more detailed workings continues with another set of documents aiming to convince the world the Vatican finances are on the path to reform.
Due to the withholding of his medical records, Vatican Deputy Auditor Ferruccio Panicco’s diagnosis was delayed, which he said put in jeopardy the curability of what turned out to be prostate cancer, from which he died last week.
In the recording, Francis was asked to confirm authorization of payments for the ransom of a kidnapped nun in Africa in the amount of 350,000 euros to the British firm, Inkerman Group.
The lawsuit brought by the Vatican's former Auditor General has been delivered a major blow after the Holy See refused to allow Libero Milone's chosen legal representation.
'I was discovering things that somebody wanted to keep undercover,” Libero Milone said to journalists in Rome on Tuesday. 'All these matters were reported to the Pope. I wasn’t spying. I was doing my job.'
An Italian news outlet uncovered that the Vatican held shares 'for a value of about 20 million euros' in Swiss pharmaceutical companies that produced the morning-after pill.