Tag: Ettore Gotti Tedeschi

• Saturday, August 31st 2013 - 17:31 UTC

  Chronicle of a removal foretold: Francis names new ‘prime minister’

  

  Pope Francis and his orthodox reform approach sets a new tone for a Vatican beset by scandals by naming a veteran diplomat as secretary of state, a role often called the “deputy pope”.

• Monday, May 28th 2012 - 04:23 UTC

  Secrets from the Vatican walled citadel leak out and rock the Church

  

  The Vatican faces a widening scandal that in one short week has seen Pope Benedict's butler arrested, the president of its bank unceremoniously dismissed and the publication of a new book alleging conspiracies among cardinals.