As the Vatican implements new controls on financial transactions, its watchdog agency has seen a steep rise in reports of suspicious transactions. "It means the reporting system is working," said Rene ...

FILE - Rene Bruelhart speaks during a press conference at the Vatican, on May 29, 2015. The former head of the Vatican’s financial watchdog testified Tuesday that the agency launched an intelligence ...

The head of the Vatican's financial regulator is leaving his job, the Vatican said on Monday (November 18), just weeks after police raids on his organization and another key arm of the Catholic Church ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The head of the Vatican’s financial watchdog agency is leaving his post after a raid by Vatican police on the agency’s offices breached the Holy See’s international financial ...

Any time money changes hands, there is a potential for financial misconduct, but the leaders of the Vatican's Financial Information Authority said the Holy See has made enormous strides in reducing ...

René Brülhart, the Vatican’s financial watchdog, presented his office’s annual report for 2015 in a Vatican news conference on Thursday, April 28. (Credit: CNS.) Listen ROME – While Pope Francis ...

The former president of the Vatican's financial watchdog agency told the Vatican court that allegations he failed to prevent a costly property development deal were "unfounded" since he had no ...

VATICAN CITY — Two Vatican trials are coming to a head this week and posing uncomfortable questions for the Holy See, given they both underscore Pope Francis’ power as an absolute monarch and the ...

(RNS) — ‘I am firmly convinced I have not committed any crime,’ René Brülhart, former head of the the Vatican’s financial watchdog agency, told judges. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Facing accusations that he ...