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Vatican City

Vatican releases report on current status of preventing and combating money laundering and terrorist financing

In its latest Annual Report, the Vatican Supervisory and Financial Information Authority (ASIF) highlights increasingly effective procedures and greater attention to geographical risk. IOR is confirmed as a well-organized entity as the Holy See receives a positive assessment in the follow-up by the Moneyval Committee of the Council of Europe.

Dicasteries

International Theological Commission publishes important document on the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea

The International Theological Commission has now published an important and comprehensive document entitled, “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior: The 1700th Anniversary of the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea.” It aims not only to recall the nature and significance of the Council, given its great historical importance for the Church, but also to highlightthe extraordinary resources that the Nicene creed, continuously professed up to our own time, contains and re-proposes, especially in view of the new phase of evangelization that the Church is presently called to undertake

Justice and Peace•Local Church•Protection of vulnerable people

Archdiocese of Chicago brings alleged fraudsters who allegedly posed as abuse victims to trial

According to the lawsuit, a group of men—some of them convicted gang members and murderers—devised a scheme more than a decade ago to falsely accuse McCormack of sexual abuse. A recorded prison call would have revealed discussions of how easy it was to deceive the archdiocese. Other subpoenas uncovered conversations in which the accused reportedly joked about exploiting the system.