church and money

Coronavirus in Spain

Coronavirus in Spain: mayor tells Church to pay tax to help solve crisis as two bishops take ill

Skate parks... one possible use for deconsecrated churches, like this one in Spain

Libraries better than hotels or houses: Italian Bishops set guidelines for deconsecrated churches

Salvini, with a rosary at a rally

Analysis: Salvini and the Italian Church: who’s using who?

Vatican corruption - police search home, office of curial official as Cardinal Becciu again denies wrongdoing

Vatican corruption: police search home, office of curial official as Cardinal Becciu again denies wrongdoing

Danish Catholic Church tries desperate measure to win back disaffected youth

Danish Catholic Church tries desperate measure to win back disaffected youth

Pope hails 'effectiveness and efficiency' of Vatican law enforcement after corruption raid, investigation

Pope hails “effectiveness and efficiency” of Vatican law enforcement after corruption raid, investigation

Finnish Catholic Church in Tampere

Eight parishes in 300,000 square kilometres: Finnish Catholic Church struggles for survival

Polish Church plunges to new lows of trust

Polish Church plunges to new low in trust: just 39% have confidence in the institution

Italian police patrol St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican

World financial intelligence network readmits Vatican after corruption raid

The Belgian Bishops' new building on Rue Guimard, Brussels

Belgian Church buys up big on prime Brussels real estate while warning of church closures

School chaplain sign

Irish Government accused of opacity, discrimination over public millions for chaplains in State secondary schools

Pope Francis adores the Baby Jesus

Pope recalls on Epiphany that “life’s greatness does not consist in having, but in loving”

Polish priest and media and business tycoon Tadeusz Rydzyk

Tens of thousands of Poles petition Pope to silence “hateful voice” of priest media tycoon

Dome of the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica

Theologian says Vatican financial scandals signal “end of pontifical monarchy”

Croatian flags

Controversial Vatican treaties emerge as issue in tight Croatian presidential vote

Interior of the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica

Professor, real estate insider take down conservative Catholic “Dan Brown” reporting on Vatican financial “scandals”

Euros in a bible (stock)

Baroque to broke: French Church sounds alarm over plunging finances

Antwerp Cathedral in Belgium's Flanders region

Religions in Belgium’s Flanders region receive almost 500 million euros a year in taxpayer money

Abolish the priesthood (illustrative)

Canon lawyer: case of German bishop charged with embezzling could accelerate power debate in Church

Auxiliary Bishop of Aachen (Germany), Johannes Bündgens

German bishop charged with embezzling from elderly woman

National University of Ireland Galway

Authorities mum as Irish universities funnel millions in public money to Churches in no-tender chaplaincy contracts

The façade of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican

Vatican invested millions in donations in everything from “lifestyle products” to the Elton John biopic: report

Cardinal Angelo Becciu

Vatican cardinal Becciu says EWTN’s Catholic News Agency admitted to ‘fake news’ on corruption scandals

New Prefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy Juan Antonio Guerrero

Pope’s new economy czar spotted in American-led Vatican business management seminar

Pope Francis in Wednesday's General Audience

Francis slams “hypocrisy” of “talking peace and selling war”

Pope Francis on his return flight from Japan

Pope insists Vatican financial reforms “working” despite corruption investigation

Vatican cardinal Angelo Becciu

Vatican Cardinal Becciu “shocked” by “shameful”, “misleading” reports pinning him for financial wrongdoing

Headquarters of the IOR, the 'Vatican Bank'

Here’s how the Pope can clean up the Vatican financial mess

A nun praying before a Cross (stock)

French superiors who considered pensions contrary to Gospel sentenced to pay damages

Former Vatican financial watchdog head René Brülhart

Vatican reeling after surprise departure of financial watchdog head