ROME – While most attention to Vice President JD Vance’s visit to the Vatican this weekend has focused on policy differences on matters such as immigration and poverty, it also comes as the Vatican is preparing to ask American authorities for help amid an international financial scandal involving a now-suppressed Catholic organisation with tentacles in Peru, the Vatican, and the United States.
A meeting this morning between Vance and Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State, takes place after several high-ranking Vatican officials received detailed correspondence from a lawyer and a human rights organization in Peru outlining alleged financial crimes committed by the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, an once-powerful Catholic entity which has been suppressed and which is now in the process of being liquidated by its Vatican-appointed overseer.
