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The Vatican has charged five people, including Italian journalists in connection with leaked documents exposing corruption in the Church:
Two journalists and three former Vatican officials have been formally charged with "criminal misappropriation" and other crimes, the Vatican says, in a case tied to allegations of financial misdeeds by Catholic Church officials.
Those arrested include Spanish Monsignor Lucio Vallejo Balda and Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui, who served on a special Vatican commission on economic reform that was assembled by Pope Francis shortly after he was elected in 2013. Vatican police arrested the pair earlier this month; Chaouqui was released after a brief detention, due to her cooperation with the authorities.
Also facing charges are Vallejo's secretary, Nicola Maio, as well as Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi — two journalists who published books this month that promise a rare glimpse into scandals and corruption in the Roman Catholic Church. Fittipaldi's book, Avarice, is currently No. 3 on the list of bestsellers on Amazon's Italian site, just behind Nuzzi's Way of the Cross. Nuzzi was also involved in the original "Vatileaks" scandal of 2012, when he published a book containing private Vatican documents and letters. Some say that scandal contributed to Pope Benedict's resignation.
In the current case, the reporters and Vatican officials formed an "organized crime association," according to the Holy See Press Office.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by FatPhil on Wednesday November 25 2015, @09:15AM
While the world's all in a fluster about how evil Islam is, and some of them are "praying" for the victims and their families, I get irate - Islam's not the problem, and praying certainly isn't the solution. Organised and proselytising religions are the problem. The bloody Catholics have caused more suffering in the world than IS ever can (I don't even need to go back to their terroristic period, which is clearly a phase all religions go through when they're only 13*, let's start with millions of Indians born into a life of suffering, for some way more brief than others, because the evil Mother Theresa forbade the use of contraception).
[* centuries]
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(Score: 1) by massa on Wednesday November 25 2015, @12:30PM
the funny twist is that she confessed that during a lot of her life she didn't believe that God existed. [telegraph.co.uk]
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday November 26 2015, @12:10PM
Praise be unto her, as she's apparently a fucking saint.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Wednesday November 25 2015, @11:33PM
My gripe with religion is that it tries to make a lot of people to all believe the same thing, but people do not naturally end up believing the same thing. This is exactly why religions splinter off and form different sects: a large enough group of "believers" find that their beliefs differ enough from the "true" beliefs of their religion and thus go off to create their own religion.
This is only a symptom of the disease, however; the disease itself is religion forcing people with inherently different beliefs to believe the exact same thing.
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