ROME — The powerful head of the Vatican's saint-making office, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, resigned suddenly Thursday from the post and renounced his rights as a cardinal amid a financial scandal that has ...

A cardinal convicted of financial crimes by the Vatican said Tuesday he will not take part in the secret conclave to elect the new pope.Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, once one of the most powerful ...

Vatican prosecutors have alleged a jaw-dropping series of scandals in the biggest criminal trial in the Vatican’s modern history. The trial opens Tuesday in the Vatican Museums. A once-powerful ...

Crowned pope before he was old enough to rule, he filled the papal court with scandal, bribery, and open debauchery. Even the Church called him unholy, a demon clothed in holy robes.