A Vatican criminal court convicted an Italian cardinal once thought to be a contender for pope of embezzlement and sentenced him to more than five years in prison in what has been dubbed the Holy ...

Cardinal Becciu, the Pope’s former chief of staff, is the highest-ranking Vatican official ever to face a trial in the Vatican’s criminal court. The 75-year-old Italian cardinal was found ...

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the first cardinal ever prosecuted by the Vatican criminal court, was absolved of several other charges and nine other defendants received a combination of guilty verdicts ...

The trial was carried out in the Tribunal of Vatican City State, the highest civil court of Vatican City. Becciu was the first cardinal to ever be put to trial under the Vatican's civil court ...

A district court judge ruled Wednesday that former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is not competent to stand trial in a criminal case for alleged sex abuse of a minor about 50 years ago, dismissing ...

Cardinal Joseph Tobin promised “full cooperation” from the Catholic university in New Jersey, but the school is pushing back.

Becciu contested that version in court, saying it was the police who had told him the meeting was secret. "We never told the cardinal that the meeting was secret, never," De Santis said on Thursday.

Raising his right hand the Cardinal swore to Court Clerk Joseph O’Sullivan that he would tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help him God. What brought Cardinal ...

Cardinal Joseph Zen, a retired bishop and a vocal democracy advocate of the city, arrived at court in a black outfit and used a walking stick. He was first arrested in May on suspicion of ...