Cardinal Implicated in Vatican Financial Scandals Blasts Respected Journalist for ‘False Article’, by Paul Smeaton 

ROME, November 25, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, has publicly criticized an American Catholic journalist for a recent article linking the cardinal with major financial corruption and scandal at the Vatican.

Cardinal Becciu took to Twitter yesterday to lambast Dr Ed Condon, a journalist for Catholic News Agency (CNA), for his article last week which reports that the Cardinal “attempted to disguise $200 million loans on Vatican balance sheets” including funds from a disreputable Swiss bank and that he subsequently reprimanded Cardinal George Pell, then Prefect for the Secretariat of the Economy, when he began asking questions about the balance sheets.

Dr Condon has subsequently received the public support of J.D. Flynn, CNA’s editor in chief and Damian Thompson, associate editor at The Spectator and former editor of the Catholic Herald.

In a reply to Condon posting his article on Twitter, Cardinal Becciu responded: “Mr. Condon shamefully misled the faithful with another FALSE article (based on the same unreliable “sources” Card. Parolin recently corrected) claiming my involvement in financial impropriety “discovered” by Card Pell. I am shocked by such a way of convincing readers!” ….

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