The Vatican's chief financial official admitted Oct. 1 that the city-state may have been "swindled" by previous investment advisors, as part of the Vatican's first public release of a detailed budget document in more than five years.
Several prominent theologians are raising concerns about how the Vatican doctrinal office's approach to the case of Fr. Tony Flannery seems out of line with Pope Francis' calls for a church open to dialogue.
In a new apostolic letter, Scripturae Sacrae Affectus, Pope Francis said that even today, Christians can learn new things from the countless translations of the Bible that exist.
