Vatican trial

In Thursday’s session of the Catholic Church’s corruption trial, the president of the Vatican Bank said he had no choice but to report what he knew about the London real-estate deal at the heart of the inquiry.

Cardinal Becciu, once the third-highest-ranking prelate at the Vatican, now charged with embezzlement and abuse of office, approached journalists to rail against the treatment of him by police.

An Italian appeals court has annulled the pre-trial arrest of the prime suspect in the Vatican’s fraud and embezzlement trial, signaling an end to extradition procedures in Britain for now.

Donations are expected to continue to drop following financial scandals currently at the heart of a high-profile Vatican trial. The institution is tackling an expected deficit of $37 million.

Vatican prosecutors have alleged a jaw-dropping series of scandals in the biggest criminal trial in the Vatican’s modern history, which opens Tuesday in a modified courtroom in the Vatican Museums.