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Fr. Robert P. Imbelli
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Francis X. Maier
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Richard A. Spinello
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Carrie Gress
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Fr. Paul D. Scalia
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RECENT COLUMNS
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Fr. Robert P. Imbelli
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Francis X. Maier
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Richard A. Spinello
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Carrie Gress
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Fr. Paul D. Scalia
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Ghost of the Papal States in Vatican trial
John L. Allen Jr., Crux
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
The current Vatican trial/financial scandal is reminiscent of another in the 1850s about which a journalist wrote: “Condemnations are a dishonor only in countries where judges are honored. All the world knows that the pontifical magistrates are not instruments of justice, but tools of power.”