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IDI Foundation President Gives New Detail on Vatican Loans for Hospital Purchase

Nov 29, 2019

Antonio Maria Leozappa, president of the Fondazione Luigi Maria Monti, issued a letter to offer “clarification and rectification” on the reported use of funds from APSA in the foundation’s 2015 purchase of the Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata (IDI).

Cardinal Pietro Parolin. Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Cardinal Parolin Says He Arranged Controversial Hospital Loan, Papal Foundation Grant

Nov 20, 2019

The Vatican Secretary of State told CNA this week that he is responsible for arranging a controversial loan for the purchase of a bankrupt Italian hospital, and that he arranged with Cardinal Donald Wuerl a grant from the U.S.-based Papal Foundation to cover the loan when it could not be repaid.

Theodore McCarrick. Credit: US Institute of Peace CC BY NC 2.0

McCarrick: Foundation ‘irresponsible’ to Question Controversial Vatican Grant

Nov 7, 2019

McCarrick made the intervention in December 2017, after objections were raised to the Vatican’s request of $25 million from the Papal Foundation, for a bankrupt Italian hospital, the Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata (IDI). 

His Eminence Giovanni Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, June 27, 2019. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Vatican Cardinals Linked to Missing Millions and Financial Scandal

Oct 29, 2019

Cardinal Angelo Becciu and Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi have been key players in a complicated series of financial transactions to finance the Vatican Secretariat of State’s 2015 acquisition of the hospital.