"While Benedict was the public face of the universal church, Tarcisio Bertone, for now, remains the private power broker who runs the Vatican on a daily basis. Bertone’s position also means he presides over the Vatican Bank, a post he appeared to use to impede Benedict’s financial reforms. His allies control the church’s main financial institutions."
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Pope Benedict XVI’s leaked documents show fractured Vatican full of rivalries
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Pope Benedict XVI’s correspondence shows tales of betrayal, allegations of corruption and systemic dysfunction.
Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Sua Santità. Le carte segrete di Benedetto XVI
The book is based on documents leaked over a period of time, i.e. it covers many aspects of what is going on in the Vatican. The impression you get is that of petty personal struggles swept under a
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Tarcisio Bertone, el gran elector del Vaticano - BBC Mundo - Noticias
No se había apagado aún la conmoción causada por la renuncia del Papa Benedicto XVI, cuando ya empezaban las especulaciones sobre quién podría sucederlo. Y un nombre era mencionado con insiste...
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Kardinalstaatssekretär Bertone - Vertreter des Papstes
Kardinal Tarcisio Bertone: Papst-Vertrauter und Stellvertreter für die Zeit der Sedisvakanz. Kardinal Bertone soll die Aufklärung von Fällen sexuellen Missbrauchs durch Priester behindert, Kungelei
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Pope struggled to lift sacred secrecy of Vatican finances
The arrests over the past six months of Palumbo and the 34-year-old lawyer, Simone Fazzari, highlight one major source of the scandals and power struggles that observers say contributed to Pope ...
'sacred secrecy' : "Last month, Italy barred its own banks from doing business in the Holy See, citing a lack of transparency by the city-state’s financial apparatus that has routinely declined to release data on accounts held there by church bodies, clergy, foreign embassies and lay entities related to the Vatican. The move cut off credit card processing at Vatican commercial sites including the Sistine Chapel, effectively forcing them to go cash-only. This week, plastic was finally welcomed again in Vatican City, but only after church authorities cut a deal with a Swiss firm that is not subject to European Union banking laws."
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Pope renews terms of cardinals supervising Vatican bank : News Headlines
Pope renews terms of cardinals supervising Vatican bank CWN - February 18, 2013 Pope Benedict XVI has renewed the terms of 4 of the 5 cardinals on the committee that supervises the work of the ...
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When Pope Benedict XVI steps down, who will run the Vatican?
VATICAN CITY -- As of 8 p.m. on Feb. 28, Pope Benedict XVI will no longer be pope and the Vatican will go into "sede vacante" mode -- a Latin expression that means that the seat of St. Peter is ...
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"as of 8:01 p.m. on Feb. 28, the Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, will lose the post that's rough equivalent of a prime minister. But Bertone holds another post that plays a key role during the interregnum: camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church. The camerlengo, together with the Apostolic Chamber (an office dating back to the Middle Ages that once acted as the papacy's treasury), runs the Vatican state and is in charge of the church's property and money in the absence of the pope."