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Cardinal guilty of mass fraud in Vatican ‘trial of the century’

Anthony Faiola and Stefano Pitrelli

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Vatican City | Inside the high walls of the Holy See, Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, former head of the office of “miracles” that minted saints, was considered papabile, a possible next pope.

Then his career collided with church prosecutors, who charged the 75-year-old Italian and nine other officials with corruption, setting up the Vatican’s trial of the century.

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