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Giovanni Angelo Becciu
Italian convicted felon and prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
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Giovanni Angelo Becciu (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈandʒelo ˈbɛttʃu], Sardinian: [ˈbetʃu]; born 2 June 1948) is a Sardinian Catholic prelate and convicted felon who was prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints from 2018 until his resignation under duress in 2020. Pope Francis had made him a cardinal in 2018. On 24 September 2020, Becciu resigned the rights associated with the cardinalate while retaining the title of cardinal.
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🇺🇸 Tribunal Calls for Retrial of the Vatican’s ‘Trial of the Century’Three years ago, the Vatican’s criminal court convicted a cardinal for the first time in history. Now, an appeals court has ruled there were irregular...
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