Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, once one of the most powerful figures in the Vatican, was ordered by Pope Francis in 2020 to resign the “rights and privileges” of a cardinal after he became ...

In the case of the first — a payment of 25,000 euros, about $27,000 at current exchange rates, made in 2015 — Cardinal Becciu said that the secretariat had financed a bread-making machine for ...

Cardinal Becciu seemed a prelate on the rise in the Francis pontificate, often traveling with the pope. On June 28, 2018, when he received his red cardinal’s hat, bishops lined up to ...

Giovanni Angelo Becciu, former prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, pictured June 27, 2019. | Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, once one of the most powerful figures in the Vatican, was ordered by Pope Francis in 2020 to resign the “rights and privileges” of a cardinal after he became ...

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu was found guilty of three counts of embezzlement and handed a five-year, six-month prison term, the Vatican confirmed Saturday.

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, who became the first cardinal to ever be prosecuted by the Vatican’s criminal court in December 2023, has appealed the conviction, denying wrongdoing. Becciu can ...

Sept. 24, 2020 Updated Thu., Sept. 24, 2020 at 11:59 a.m. FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2017 file photo, Mons. Giovanni Angelo Becciu presides over an eucharistic liturgy, at the St. John in Latheran ...

Pope Francis greets Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, then prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes, at the Vatican Dec. 16, 2019. (CNS/Vatican Media) ...

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, 76, was asked by Francis to step down from his position and resign all “rights and privileges” of being a cardinal at the Vatican in 2020 after he was accused ...