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Powerful Vatican Cardinal Becciu resigns amid scandal

by Asspciated Press
| September 24, 2020 12:03 PM

ROME (AP) — The powerful head of the Vatican's saint-making office, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, resigned suddenly Thursday from the post and renounced his rights as a cardinal amid a financial scandal that has reportedly implicated him indirectly.

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