Vatican-watching anon here, with a non-Hunter-related story.

Anons will remember that Cardinal Becciu got busted for involvement in spending millions from the annual "Peter's Pence" collection (to be used for the poor/needy) on buying pricey real estate in London.

Becciu got stripped of his Cardinal's hat, and is on trial for corruption etc. Even Vatican experts can't figure out wtf is actually going on–but SOMETHING is going on behind the scenes here, involving the Vatican and money-mismanagement.

This Italian religion journalist is very solid, has good sources, and can't STAND Pope Francis.

"After nine hearings blocked by procedural obstacles, there began on March 17 what the international media are calling “the trial of the century,” conducted against Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu and other defendants mainly on account of the disastrous purchase of a building on Sloane Avenue in London, by the secretariat of state.

In the previous hearing of March 1, the judges of the Vatican tribunal presided over by Giuseppe Pignatone, in a 40-page decree, rejected as unfounded all the objections to the validity of the trial raised up to that point by the defense attorneys.

That does not change the fact that the reputation of the judicial system in place at the Vatican, which this trial is laying bare, continues to be terrible. The major international press outlets, from the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” to the “Corriere della Sera” to “The Economist,” have found themselves in agreement in judging it as deficient in the constitutive elements of a modern rule of law.

In fact, at the Vatican and in particular during this pontificate - so highly proclaimed to the world as modernizing - there is no “rule of law” that applies to everyone, because above every codified rule there is the supreme power of the pope, who at any moment orders and does what he wants without anyone being able to judge him…"

https://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2022/03/22/judge-and-defendant-the-pope's-two-bodies-in-the-trial-of-the-century/